I believe you ... Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 12:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ASCII vs. EBCDIC (was Re: On sort options ...) On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:21:17 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >Are you sure about UNPACK, EDIT and EDMK? > >My recollection is that > >- UNPACK does not care about content. It just re-arranges the nibbles. >- EDIT and EDMK do not ever create packed data, do they? And I think >they > honored both D and B as negative indicators for input. Yep. I looked it up in a 360 POO. I believe that UNPK just reversed the nibbles in the last byte, but for the rest of it, it has to insert zone nibbles. That would be "F" for EBCDIC, IIRC '5' for ASCII. EDIT and EDMK likewise have to supply zone nibbles. You are correct that all of the values A-F are valid signs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
