I came in - in the middle of this discussion. Are you talking about the "stuff" at:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2d540/APPENDIX 1.3.2 I was "amused" that it doesn't' mention WHICH ANSI or ISO Standard they are defined in - but I always thought that the "A" in RECFM=?A was for "ANSI". And yes, COBOL uses these too, (I won't go into the rules about when COBOL creates FBA vs FBM output and everything that the ADV/NOADV compiler option does.) "Paul Gilmartin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 23:57:02 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > > >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/01/2008 > > at 10:02 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: > > > >>First, thank you for saying "Fortran" rather than "ASCII". The > >>convention is part of the FORTRAN (and, I believe, COBOL) spec, not of > >>ASCII as is so commonly misstated. > > > >It's not part of ASCII but it is an ANSI standard. > > > There are numerous ANSI standards. FORTRAN specifies '1' as a > page separator. ASCII specifies FF (0x0C). Merely to say "ANSI" > is at best ambiguous; "ASCII" is simply wrong. > > -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
