On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:24:08 -0800, Ed Jaffe wrote:

>On 1/10/2014 1:17 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
>> I use the broken-bracket convention, viz., <nul>, when I need to
>> display a nul, x'00' in both ASCII and EBCDIC.
>
>We use this convention in our documentation when describing any keyboard
>key.
>
>Example: "Type your password into the appropriate field and press <Enter>."

I too would vote thus - usually I prefer "\t" (with or without quotes), but in 
our world anyone who has passed parms into (non-legacy) batch may be misled.

Shane ...

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