I think the longest is 9K. If there were any longer I could pre-split them manually.
But yes, I think TF might flow the whole file and lose the paragraph breaks. Someone who will remain nameless pointed out that I could "soft" flow the lines in Notepad++ and then paste them that way into a 3270 emulator edit session. I think one way or another I have this. Thank you all. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Monday, December 10, 2018 12:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Breaking text file at position 72? On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:45:54 +0000, Blake, Daniel J [CTR] wrote: >One TFnn works for any/all lines between blanks lines. So if you have >a line followed by a blank line, text line, blank line, yes each line >will require a TFnn line command. Two or more lines without >separating blank(s) require only one TFnn line command. If the data that Charles is processing contains paragraphs without intervening blank lines, all the paragraphs will be flowed together, not likely what he wants. Also, he mentioned that some of the lines are several thousand bytes long. Depending on how many thousand bytes, he may or may not be able to use TF unless he can split lines that are longer than 32K bytes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
