On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:04:48 -0800, Skip Robinson wrote: >An intriguing question in view of the absence of tabs in the conventional >EBCDIC character set. > ??? Isn't 0x05 TAB in all EBCDIC code pages.
>My emulator (Vista3270) is pretty rich, but even if >I could somehow type a tab character into an MVS file, what would z/OS do >with it? > >As to your question, I would prefer > > Parm2=FOO<tab>BAR > >because any single character representation would mislead the reader into >typing *that* character. Like the old joke about not finding the "any" >key. > I once proposed that an editor, such as ISPF, with NULLS ON should fill all the cells tabbed over with NULs, and a Field Mark (used to be a key on real 327x) in the final position. Users could then type over the nulls, and insert text earlier with much of the WYSIWYG behavior of other nulls-savvy editors. A counter argument given was that many emulators fail to implement the standard behavior of nulls. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
