On Sunday, 07/09/2006 at 12:26 AST, Rick Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been doing an explicit
> 
> 'SET INPUT B0 5F'
> 
> in PROFILE EXEC for quite some time for just this reason.
> Hex B0 is the "caret",  which is what gets sent for  Shift-6
> from some emulators  (notably X3270,  which I prefer of late).

Again, entirely dependent on your/its selection of code page.  There is a 
downside to use SET INPUT/SET OUTPUT: It doesn't apply when you FTP or do 
a 3270 File Transfer. 

You can run, but you can't hide.  We used to run afoul of code pages less 
often, because we simply learned not to use symbols like '$' or '@'.  (You 
DID know that not all code pages have @ at 0x7C, right? A major PITA.) But 
the data center consolidations and globalization in general have required 
us to become "code page aware".
 
> Any codepage which presents "caret" for 5F is just flag wrong.  [sigh]

Now don't be offensive.  :-)  Most of the european code pages, including 
those for German, French, Portuguese, Italian, and Danish, use the caret 
for 0x5F.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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