robin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: ... > That's right. It definitely wasn't on either punch. The ^ is not in the EBCDIC > alphabet. ^ is character 95 (5F hex) in the EBCDIC character set. What you mean is that ^ was not in the set as supported by devices like the 026 punch in the '60s. -- J. Giles %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%