I have a started task that (among many other things) will display its own
parameters, something like

Parm1=WIDGET
Parm2=FOOBAR

At present all of the values it displays are printable characters. Due to an
enhancement it is possible that one of the parameters will contain a
horizontal tab character. A C programmer would expect the display to become
Parm2=FOO\tBAR. MS Word would say FOO^tBAR. But those of you who are "real
mainframers through and through," how would you expect a tab to be
represented in a display? The value is going to be all printable characters
99% of the time so going to hex and character is probably a clumsy approach.

Parm2=FOO<tab>BAR
Parm2=FOO\tBAR
Parm2=FOO^tBAR

Or what?

Thanks,

Charles 

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