Passed parms? Is that like the cannibal who passed his friend in the woods?
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 4:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe "culture" question - how display a tab character? On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:24:08 -0800, Ed Jaffe wrote: >On 1/10/2014 1:17 PM, John Gilmore wrote: >> I use the broken-bracket convention, viz., <nul>, when I need to >> display a nul, x'00' in both ASCII and EBCDIC. > >We use this convention in our documentation when describing any >keyboard key. > >Example: "Type your password into the appropriate field and press <Enter>." I too would vote thus - usually I prefer "\t" (with or without quotes), but in our world anyone who has passed parms into (non-legacy) batch may be misled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
