John,,

Could you give us an example, please?

Ed

On Nov 30, 2006, at 8:13 AM, McKown, John wrote:

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And of course the *&&^*&&* Cobol programmers who think
LOW-VALUES (X'00')
are great fill values.  Ascii servers eat that up -- and
forget the rest
of the "line".

Yeah, we have this problem here. And it ends up as "ftp failed" with a
sev 1 problem in the Tech Support queue. I'm getting quite creative in
saying "programmer is completely ignorant of and incompetent to consider
doing anything cross-platform".

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