Remember that things like awk and sed and Python may have assumptions about character order that can bite in nasty ways. Not a reason to eschew them, but a source of surprises, especially if testing is superficial (i.e., it may "work" but then do the wrong thing in real-world cases).
Making System/360 100% ASCII instead of the "It can do ASCII PSW bit that nobody ever used" is definitely on my time-machine task list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
