Re: Understanding Error Messages

Amir,
   What can we do to convince you that your problem is NOT the bad
characters in 
the LISTING - but in the source program.  The bad characters in the
listing may 
make "cut-and-paste" a problem.

HOWEVER,
   Your problem is the bad characters in your source program on the
Mainframe 
(not the PC).  We told you what ISPF command to use to see them.  We told
you 
what commands to use to FIX them.

Please STOP posting about bad characters in your listing; we just DON"T
CARE 
!!!!

-- 
Bill Klein
 wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"amir" <ahsharif@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:f45f4240-95a0-4adb-b172-f5e3595f0ceb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On May 16, 3:04 am, Doug Miller <spamb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In article <0ab03ab8-c3e8-40cb-8cb7-c81ffd642b98
>> @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, ahsha...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
>>
>>
>>
>> > On May 15, 2:05 am, Doug Miller <spamb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > > In article <19604818-f965-4e30-899a-
>> > > b3cd1e7ac...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, ahsha...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> > > >   000001         ....   identification
division................(etc)
>> > > >
44FFFFFF44444444401004448889A88888A899488A8A8994000000000000000(etc)
>> > > >
000000010000000000F0000094553969313965049592965B000000000000000(etc)
>> > > > The problem started exactly at 9th charachter after 000001.
>> > > > It will be in the "A899488A", if we assume each two hex numbers
as one
>> > > > character.
>>
>> > > You don't even *begin* to understand what you're looking at.
>>
>> > > The two hex digits making up each character are read *vertically*,
>> > > appearing directly underneath the text they correspond to. The
problem
>> > > actually starts at the 10th character after "000001", not the 9th,
and
>> > > "A899488A" is not what you think it is:
>> > >         A899488A
>> > >         39650495
>> > > is read as
>> > >         A3 89 96 95 40 84 89 A5 = "tion div"
>>
>> > > Following the "000001", you have:
>> > >         444444444
>> > >         000000000
>> > > read as 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 = "         "
>> > > followed by
>> > >         0100
>> > >         0F00
>> > > read as 00 1F 00 00 = NUL, IUS, NUL, NUL
>> > > then three more spaces, then "identification division.", followed
by a
>> > > whole lot more nulls.
>>
>> > I got it. As I checked it, My problem is after 9 character from
000001
>> > and is:
>> >         0100
>> >         0F00
>>
>> That's NOT the ONLY problem; as noted just a few lines above, you ALSO
>> have a whole lot of nulls following the period after "division".
>
> Of course, I have too much null characters in my listing.