On 2014-01-12, at 16:07, Gainsford, Allen wrote: >> 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. > ??? What's the difference between C'...' and CA'...'? I thought the "CA" meant generate text in ASCII.
-- gil
