@table @code
@item char rec_type[4];
-Record type code, set to @samp{$FL2}.
+Record type code, set to @samp{$FL2}, that is, either @code{24 46 4c
+32} if the file uses an ASCII-based character encoding, or @code{5b c6
+d3 f2} if the file uses an EBCDIC-based character encoding.
@item char prod_name[60];
Product identification string. This always begins with the characters
been actually observed in system files:
@table @asis
+@item 1
+EBCDIC.
+
@item 2
7-bit ASCII.
The following additional values are known to be defined:
@table @asis
-@item 1
-EBCDIC.
-
@item 3
8-bit ``ASCII''.
Other Windows code page numbers are known to be generally valid.
-Old versions of SPSS always wrote value 2 in this field, regardless of
-the encoding in use. Newer versions also write the character encoding
-as a string (see @ref{Character Encoding Record}).
+Old versions of SPSS for Unix and Windows always wrote value 2 in this
+field, regardless of the encoding in use. Newer versions also write
+the character encoding as a string (see @ref{Character Encoding
+Record}).
@end table
@node Machine Floating-Point Info Record