RE: Where is the First> Last> convention documented?

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> > Some were, and some were not. The IBM EBCDIC control functions
> > differ significantly from the ISO 6429 C0 and C1 controls.
> > See, for example:
> >
> > http://www.barrcentral.com/help/spool/B_ASCII_and_EBCDIC_Standards.htm
>
> I don't take this as a reference for EBCDIC. The mappings betweenEBCDIC and
> ISO 8859-1 were published since long by IBM and prevail. I have never seen
> the differences you expose here (possibly a fantasy from the author of this
> site, due to some specific use in some old IBM-specific application, and
> assumption that the use in such application was changing the mapping.)

O.k., smartypants. Would you take *this* as more definitive?

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/cdra/appendix_g.jsp

--Ken

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