On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Webster <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yep, on those old IBM systems you typed in a line of stuff and when you were
> sure everything was correct you pressed the “EOB” key.  EOB is End Of
> Business or that was what our dedicated IBM FE told me.

  "End Of Block".

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/terminology/e.html#x2274851

  I think the equivilent ASCII character is ETB (End of Transmission
Block).  There's a bunch of obscure control characters designated for
data structures.  They aren't much used these days.

-- Ben

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