Or 12. or 9. Bring back Stretch.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 4:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Misuse of the word hexadecimnal (Was RE: COPYING PDS TO PDS ...) I pretty much stuck to the term byte for that reason. A byte is eight 1/0 bits. A character starts to get off into cultural issues. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gord Tomlin Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 11:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Misuse of the word hexadecimnal (Was RE: COPYING PDS TO PDS ...) On 2019-12-04 13:52, Tom Marchant wrote: > The point of using a term like "any hexadecimal character" is to > indicate that all 256 possible values in the byte are acceptable. Even that breaks down if you choose to let wide characters (e.g., UTF-16 or UTF-32) into the conversation. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://secure-web.cisco.com/1H6HvE9GVW8CUjGXUxBZBz9a9SP4KAnqHUyKZ8PN8Op7WhWKsa1_qr2Jyl5D_wCXzWFOD-jAHJnosAtPisXXQh5BBogiAki8_SXy5_Q65RhtIVA98W-TZAEGOjLsY9NDOZ573RJdq-XrcLvqihZHRQaryBbAYlecG_3WB27bGV4t9ZcYh6lVq0LUZyPQ0uopoHp17fNVuErKhc5xEdlbo6flitqMndh62o6hc5bmuyULzxyEeRLBoYr7tcnByMaWI7cx7VEccvlcSX5cwR1OM3zYnXa3lUYrOW3D_3O6VAx4cvjMxUOqT8j2TjKQvF-CxO1kXUy9KaDKghiyXKlFKRIxbPus28beK43o15YfJJq3vXNHUiZb8OS3OdNN7jo5E7tw8_TjC4zM_UvV4UnPn8mTuelJHl9Nyo7v-e2FtmV7b3snc2fgT1G-QldcgsTQh/https%3A%2F%2Factionsoftware.com%2Fsupport%2F ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
