Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:

>>Another method is to use an * Comment to show the mapping.
>>*                  B Z Z 9 . 9 9 -
>>MASK5      DC    X'402021204B202060'          BZZ9.99-

>I hate comments - they're only for lame newbies and are not needed because 
>they make debugging too easy [1] ... ;-D

Another very kind person told me of this very clever method of commenting, ie. 
you make unreadable things sort of readable:

Use these equates in Assembler:

  b equ x'40'
  z equ x'20'
  n equ x'21'
  d equ c'.'
  s equ c'-'

and then you can use this mask for example:

mask5 dc al1(b,z,z,n,d,n,n,s)

Perhaps someone could use this method fruitfully.

PS: I will test out that method later using a copy of some my programs which 
are using ED technique.

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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