On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 14:14:41 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Here documents create strings containing embedded new lines, which *ix systems >encode as LF. They do not allow strings not containing embedded new lines to >be split across multiple lines of the source code. > "LF"? FSVO *ix. How about:
cat <<EOF foo$( : )bar EOF 574 $ 574 $ cat <<EOF > foo$( : > )bar > EOF foobar I've suggested that technique for coding long lines and comments in FB80 STDIN for B PXBATCH. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
