You can issue PIPE AHELP SPECTUT and PIPE AHELP SPECREF for a tutorial and the SPECS reference.
A little changed pipe: PIPE (sep !) Literal |1234.56| ! Specs FS | a: F2 . Print a*10000000 PIC 99999999999999 1 ! cons And, as you seem brandnew in 407: "a: F2 . " means assign symbol "a" to field 2, but don't place field 2 in the the output record. Print is to store a symbol, counter calculation, ... in the output record, here we store field 2 in column 1, after a multiplication. 2007/11/15, Rich Greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On: Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 02:43:03PM -0600,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote: > > } also, i don't find anything in the manual about 'print a*' > } can you explain that part of the pipe? > > Phil, > Look for "407 emulation", probably in the "Authors help". > > -- > Rich Greenberg N Ft Myers, FL, USA richgr atsign panix.com + 1 239 543 > 1353 > Eastern time. N6LRT I speak for myself & my dogs only. VM'er since > CP-67 > Canines:Val, Red, Shasta & Casey (RIP), Red & Zero, > Siberians Owner:Chinook-L > Retired at the beach Asst > Owner:Sibernet-L > -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
