And one more thing: moderately forgiving formatting would be good. This won't be an issue on z, of course, but I remember one CPUID scheme on Linux that insisted on UNIX-style linends (even though the data was a single line). So if you emailed a key to someone whose email was on a Windows box, and they transferred the data as binary (which it was -- also stupid), the key would look OK to the naked eye but would fail.
If it's a bunch of hex pairs (8F3D2C11 etc.), support 8-nibble groupings *or* single tokens. The latter are easier to cut & paste. Etc. -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
