> I get: > > //SYSIN DD PATHOPTS=ORDONLY,FILEDATA=TEXT,RECFM=FB,LRECL=80, > // BLKSIZE=8000,PATH='/tmp/user/Polyglot.s' > > 1 High Level Assembler Option Summary (PTF UK97444) Page 1 > ... > 000000 ADBD 2 DC C'[]' 037: BA BB > 1047: AD BD 1148: 4A 5A > 000002 ADBD 3 DC CA'[]' 5B 5D > > OK. I mostly understand the first line. Those are brackets in IBM-1047 (but > I thought the default was 037). > > But isn't DC CA'[]' supposed to translate to ASCII, which would be 5B5D? > > -- gil
Brackets in codepage 037 are BA and BB. I get: 000000 ADBD 3024 DC C'[]' 000002 ADBD 3025 DC CA'[]' 000004 5B5D 3026 DC CA'..' (where the ".." in the third line is the hex characters BABB). This gives you your 5B5D. Cheers, Allen
