My point is that "hexadecimal" there is at best unnecessary. It's just "a byte with any value" or "any character." My point is that a byte cannot *be* hexadecimal -- hexadecimal is one method of expressing a byte's value.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 10:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Misuse of the word hexadecimnal (Was RE: COPYING PDS TO PDS ...) On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 10:01:36 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >"Non-printable" (or sometimes non-alphanumeric/national) is the >word people are looking for. I disagree. "non-printable" is a term that has little meaning. Even if you mean "non-printable using a TN print train", for example, that is only a subset of the 256 possible values in a byte. The point of using a term like "any hexadecimal character" is to indicate that all 256 possible values in the byte are acceptable. It could just as well be "a byte with any hexadecimal value", or "a byte with any binary value". -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
