Re: Rules for Zoned Overpunch

2022-02-13 Thread Seymour J Metz
Do you simply want to translate all valid zones into one of two cannonical zones, or do you also want to detect invalid zones? I.e., do you want to flag zones of 0-9 as errors. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM

Re: Rules for Zoned Overpunch

2022-02-13 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 2/13/2022 7:37 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: That translates, but it doesn't validate. Drop the NILL and use a 16 byte literal: =C'?? - - ' I was under the impression he did not care about invalid values and was merely looking for a quick way of handling positive vs negative. As

Re: Rules for Zoned Overpunch

2022-02-13 Thread Seymour J Metz
That translates, but it doesn't validate. Drop the NILL and use a 16 byte literal: =C'?? - - ' -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Ed Jaffe

Re: Rules for Zoned Overpunch

2022-02-13 Thread Seymour J Metz
And CVB/CVD/CLC/BC isn't a bigger sledge hammer? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Robin Vowels [robi...@dodo.com.au] Sent: Sunday, February 13,

Re: Rules for Zoned Overpunch

2022-02-13 Thread Martin Trübner
Regardless of pathlength or bytes for instructions - I like this most Maybe add a comment to show that F becomes 7 and so on and that invalid signs (0 thru 9 in left nibble) become ? Am 13.02.22 um 05:24 schrieb Ed Jaffe: Shortest? Who knows? |      LLC   Rx,LASTBYTE Get last byte