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  3. May 2004

RE: EBCDIC to ASCII was(Difference between EBCDIC and EDCDICcharter set?)

My recollection is that the 38 could handle Either way the negative was
presented... ?

| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jderham2@xxxxxx
| Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 6:10 AM

| Shades of a difference in how negative packed fields were
| encoded. The 360
| world went one way and the s/38 went another. Don't remember the
| details now but
| if have a "green card" the differences are defined there. It was
| a "big deep
| secret" because someone made a mistake or rather a wrong
| interpretation and
| didn't want to face up to it.
|
| Jack Derham
| Direct Systems, Inc.

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