Is there a defined klingon code page?
> On Feb 20, 2016, at 11:07 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > > Going just from memory here -- too lazy or too inconsequential to look it up. > > 1. Yes, the bit has gone away. > 2. It never did much. After all, CLC or MVC does not care if the data is > ASCII, EBCDIC or Klingon. All it ever did was control the sign nibble in > packed results: C and D for EBCDIC, some other sign configurations for ASCII. > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 8:46 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ASCII vs. EBCDIC (was Re: On sort options ...) > >> On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 06:54:56 -0600, Bill Woodger wrote: >> >> Indeed, there's a bit in the PSW indicating whether it is running in >> ASCII or EBCDIC, isn't there? :-) > Used to be. I doubt that it's still functional. Did COBOL ever exploit it? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
