The last modern vestige of screwball characters in names that I know of is in 
the set of SVCs like IGC0004{ and IGC0004A in LPALIB. The last character in the 
name corresponds to the SVC number. No problem for 1 - 9, but '0' is 
represented by x'C0', which is the left brace in EBCDIC. Certainly not the rich 
menagerie that SMP used to harbor, but it does look odd in a member name.

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J.O.Skip Robinson
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 12:18:02 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:

>My recollection is that STOW at least and probably BLDL and FIND are 
>utterly character agnostic. You can create member names with 
>non-printable characters in them

Yes. SMP (not SMP/E) used at least one PDS that was full of them.

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Tom Marchant


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