In
<ofe902f58f.ddd660b4-on88257c5c.006d8c43-88257c5c.006e4...@sce.com>,
on 01/10/2014
at 12:04 PM, Skip Robinson <jo.skip.robin...@sce.com> said:
>An intriguing question in view of the absence of tabs in the
>conventional EBCDIC character set.
What absence? HT is and always has been '05'X. VT is '0B'X.
>but even if I could somehow type a tab character into an MVS file,
>what would z/OS do with it?
Nothing. An application might do something. Now, if you used the HT in
an operator command, in a JCL statement or the like, than the answer
would depend on where it was.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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