Well, I guess one of the more obvious uses is with Semitic languages. Particularly when fields must be stored left to right for correct sort sequence or to fully exploit compression algorithms that truncate trailing (but not leading) blanks, but of course must be displayed right to left.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Art Celestini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 7:13 PM Subject: Re: MVCIN instruction > FWIW, I frequently use MVCIN to place eyecatchers in data structures > to avoid false hits if and when it becomes necessary to search through > a dump for the structure. For example: > > MVCIN XxwaEye,=C'AWXX'+3 Put C'XXWA' in eyecatcher field > > I also used it recently, along with a CUSE, to work from right to left > through a USS path/filename designation in order to identify and create > any non-existing directories. > > So, in my book, like so many other instructions, its usefulness is > limited only by one's imagination. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
