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I am told this is an institutionalized mistake: a developer of yore did
an UNPK and neglected to clear the sign nybble. IBM elected never to add
the NI which would have fixed it. My surmise is that this cost far more
code elsewhere in the OS, plus some corequisite documentation.
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Don't you mean a "OI" ?? :-)
OI NAME+7,X'F0'
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Rick
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