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0x41 is a non-blank spacing character. 0x00-0x3F are reserved as 3270 control characters, in which only 0x05 (TAB) is "displayable". If you do not expand tabs in XEDIT, it will be converted to a Field Mark (0x1E, overscore semicolon). All others in that range are converted to my NONDISP character (0x79, ` in this case). 0xFF is defined as non-displayable in the 3270 architecture and so is converted to NONDISP. Regards, Alan Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development