On 2013-11-26, at 10:18, Mike Walter wrote:
>
> I looked at the BROWSE stage that Mike mentioned.  Supposedly the CC option
> supports both ASA and machine control characters.  I was trying to figure
> out how it knew which one to use.  Suppose the contents of column 1 was the
> character C -- as an ASA character, it means skip to channel 12 and print
> the data portion of the line, but as a machine character it means skip to
> channel 8 and don't print any data.  I have some experimenting to do in the
> next few days.  :-)
>
The CMS PRINT command, in the ambiguous case(s) (there are very few),
presumes ASA.  If the stream comes from a READER state, it's guaranteed
machine.

-- gil

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