Ze'ev Atlas wrote: >Why is getting an ASCII piece of information so scary? And why would handling >it using proper programming, any scary?
Simply, if you receive data, say x'0A0B0CF1F2F3', then how would you see, programmatically, it is ASCII or EBCDIC? With TRT or friends? I had to avoid a surprise 0Cx abend or having endure GIGO. (Garbage In Garbage Out) Of course, when all foundations are set right, and you get your data in whatever format as expected, then I have no problem handling ASCII or EBCDIC. Nothing scary at all with proper programming. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
