I don't get backward slash especially when I try to upload UCM file in Mainframe and zOS fails to recognise the character (E0).
Is anyone in the group who has successfully uploaded and used the UCM file ? If then how did you manage to get alternative for backward slash ? Peter On Mon, 22 Apr, 2019, 2:23 AM Paul Gilmartin, < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:39:30 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote: > > > >I would have made the same assumption as Mike that the backward slash > >was the one intended, as it is of more recent vintage -- absent from > >actual QWERTY typewriters and pre-8-bit digital character codes. > > > Not entirely. It's in very old 7-bit ASCII at x'5C'. > > >... the only slash that was ever widely used by the > >masses prior to the introduction of the PC to mainstream culture. > > > But it was widely used in ASCII and generally available in EBCDIC > prior to the advent of the PC. It's so prevalent on keyboards and > stable in both worlds that I'm surprised that the OP had problems > finding it. Perhaps a busybody admin configured it for a shortcut: > "No one ever needs that!" > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
