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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!airgun!hmsp04.wg3.waii.com!denham
  2. From: denham@hmsp04.wg3.waii.com (Scott Denham X7117)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
  4. Subject: Re: Lower-case alphabetic set
  5. Message-ID: <1751@airgun.wg.waii.com>
  6. Date: 5 Jan 93 22:11:21 GMT
  7. References: <johnv.040n@acix.DIALix.oz.au> <1993Jan5.055753.19116@stortek.com>
  8. Sender: news@airgun.wg.waii.com
  9. Organization: Western Geo. - Div of Western Atlas Intn'l Inc., Houston, TX
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  13. In article <1993Jan5.055753.19116@stortek.com> pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
  14. (text deleted)
  15. >...  The Rexx
  16. >standard does not guarantee that XRANGE('A','Z') contains only alphabetic
  17. >characters; nor even that it contains the same number of characters as
  18. >XRANGE('a','z'); nor that the two don't overlap.  I regularly use a
  19. >dialect of Rexx for which not all these assumptions are true.
  20.  
  21. Ain't EBCDIC a thing of beauty???      
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