In a recent note, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" said:

> Date:         Fri, 4 Aug 2006 17:09:41 -0300
> 
> >I remember fonts that mapped lower case to blanks,
> 
And this would have been slower -- the controller had to wait
an entire revolution of the print train to make the decision not
to fire a hammer.

> They say that the memory is the first thing to go. Regardless of the
> train, you could specify FOLD. Don't confuse the font with the printer
> model.
> 
But, according to the z/OS 1.7 JCL RM, UCS=(,FOLD) is not
meaningful on DD SYSOUT.  Please tell me why you believe IBM
did this right.  But it matters less nowadays, in the twilight
of impact printers.

-- gil
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