>> I hate EBCDIC! (Granted in this case it's not bad design but bad luck.) In CMS I have dealt with this by PIPE ... | E2A | SORT | A2E ...
Gil, With DFSORT you can SORT characters according to the ASCII collating sequence using the format "AC" Ofcourse it can also convert EBCDIC characters to ASCII characters using TRAN=ETOA and ASCII characters to EBCDIC characters using TRAN=ATOE Thanks, Kolusu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
