In <[email protected]>, on 01/10/2014
at 01:48 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> said:
>It occurs to me that what may be meant is "the absence of
>control-character-based formatting in mainframe usage." On UNIX and
>Windows systems, fields are often delimited by tabs
Making the files a RPITA to edit.
>records very often delimited by some combination of CR and/or LF.
For Unix it's generally LF; other systems use CRLF and CR.
>and the pagination controlled with characters that do not correspond
>to the nominal EBCDIC control characters.
What's wrong with '06'X (FF)?
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