Never mind. Further investigation shows it's working as designed, and the
(ir)rationale behind it.
Sigh. Just when I thought EBCDIC was nothing but a distant, painful memory,
it gets institutionalized.
gwb
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
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