On Jul 8, 16:30, Tony Harminc <tzha0@juts.ccc.amdahl.com> wrote:
> A few mainly historic EBCDIC tidbits:
...
> The displayable characters are in the range X'40'-X'FE'.
...
> Contrary to common opinion, there is nothing in any mainframe
> hardware or software that restricts the byte values in a string.
O yes, there is one thing: the Fortran runtime system (which belongs
to the the mainframe software, doesn't it) has used the X'FF' byte
as a string terminator; hence this byte value could not be used
in a string.
Best wishes,
Otto Stolz
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