> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Wayne Driscoll
>
> Except that an UNPK would leave the field 0C, not C0, so this sounds
> like an old programmers tale to me.
No, UNPK "swaps" the nybbles of the rightmost byte. P'0' = X'0C'; UNPK
makes it X'C0'.
-jc-
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