Paul, >Perhaps it presumes that any character you enter in a control statement >can be displayed on your I/O device, but it can make no such assumption >about characters in found lines.
Wonderful! Thank you. It uncovered an unconscious flaw in my thinking. I was linking the fact that it was the TARGET with the overriding. NOT bright. I SCAN(ed) for a data name that appeared in some of the twiddle hits, instead of the twiddle - sure enough it still got zapped. David ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
