In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/28/2007 at 06:06 PM, Kenneth E Tomiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>The transfer scheme maintains the x'05' that was in your file to >begin with. The problem is perceived on the mainframe side because >the applications are not written to expand your tab character. >EBCDIC does know what a x'05' is, WTF? It's been part of EBCDIC since Old Man Noach cornered the market in Gopher Wood. >simple a single character that is not viewable on your 327x terminal It's a character that has special significance to a 3270; would you expect, e.g., SF, SBA to be visible? >Those people using PC programs to create >mainframe data need a smarter non-mainframe program to insert the >number of spaces they really wanted or learn to enter spaces when >they want spaces. It's hard to imagine a program smart enough to know that the user wanted spaces. Often the user enters a tab because a tab is what is required, and replacing it with spaces would break the application. >We can whine the mainframe does not work like the PC or we can whine >the PC does not work like the mainframe. Be fair and whine both >ways. No; learn enough to understand when whining is inappropriate. In both directionms. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html