On 3/20/2013 10:43 AM, Steve Comstock wrote:
FSVO 'flawed'
Many decades ago I worked for a company that offered 1401 and 1410 program conversion to 360 assembler. I was given a three-box card deck, JCL for their conversion program, and sample data. I had to call the bank we were doing this for because they wanted zero values left blank. When I asked them how they distinguished zeroes from single digit numbers "printed" when there was a hole in the ribbon (1403) they had no good answer, but resisted a change.
So you are correct, that "flawed' is subjective in the absence of a detailed output specification.
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