On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:27:19 +0000, Robert Prins wrote:
>>>     ...
>>> Both can be used on all of your computers.
>>>
>> One of my computers is a Raspberry Pi.
>
>Almost all of your computers.
> 
Another is a MacBook Pro with a Linux guest (does virtual count?)

>>>    ...
>> RECFM=V files may lack such long strings of x'40'.  Would better be a 
>> preponderance
>> of octets above x'80'?  But there should be an option to override.
>
>If you go for over 0x80, you end up in UTF-8 territory, which is also 
>auto-detected.
>
It's extremely unlikely that an EBCDIC file be valid UTF-8.  More plausibly 
ISO8859-?
(Which might also be auto-detected.)

-- gil

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