Text consisting of paragraphs with no indentions or blank lines seems like a pretty odd notion of 'paragraphs'. A fair amount of touchup and tweaks may be necessary to get this puppy ready for publication, but as I said earlier, for an ad hoc one-off process, manual intervention does not seem unreasonable or really unavoidable. Spending hours of development effort to save hours of TLC does not seem like a good trade-off.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Monday, December 10, 2018 1:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Breaking text file at position 72? 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
