new type of CA for ascii strings

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1 total messages Started by Martin Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:33

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Author: Martin
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:33

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To: those that teach HLASM

how do you "sell"/"explain" this to your students?

It is totaly okay to use

     MVI  FIELD,C'A'

to move the EBCDIC constant A to a field

but it is not okay to use

     MVI  FIELD,CA'A'

to move the ASCII constant A to a field.

ASCII is certainly not UNICODE-16.

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