Or, again, "any eight-bit value." Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Lock Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 1:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Misuse of the word hexadecimnal (Was RE: COPYING PDS TO PDS ...) On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 13:52 Tom Marchant < 0000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > The point of using a term like "any hexadecimal character" is to > indicate that all 256 possible values in the byte are acceptable. The problem with that is “any hexadecimal character “ limits it to only sixteen different values: 0-9,A-F. The correct description would be “any eight-bit binary value”. > > It could just as well be "a byte with any hexadecimal value", or "a > byte with any binary value". > > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
