I thought there was an old subcommand....one that was used in the dial up ages...
Set Nulls on Set Remote on Set something on It was a method of having Xedit use trailing nulls, instead of trailing blanks. Which helped a lot with a 9600 baud modem. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> "Schuh, Richard" <rsc...@visa.com> 10/1/2009 4:23 PM >>> Suppose you are editing a file that has RECFM V and you want to see the hex translation. You enter the command VER H 1 *, and you are immediately presented with the hex data. Is there any way to prevent XEDIT from padding short records with x'40's? Any way short of rewriting a chunk of the XEDIT code, that is. Regards, Richard Schuh