On Thursday, 07/10/2008 at 01:02 EDT, Douglas Wooster/Raleigh/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I got this after I sent my last post. Being a z/OS Unix user, > I sure *wish* conversions would consistently do EBCDIC NL (x'15') > to/from ASCII LF (x'0A') instead of EBCDIC NL to/from ISO8859-1 > NEL (x'85'), even though I can understand why that might not be > technically correct. Or that z/OS Unix would've used LF (x'25') > as its line-end character. > > I don't have any access to z/VM BFS and Unix. What do they > use for line-end? And what's the proper terminology for that > question?
OPENVM GETBFS and PUTBFS, as well as XEDIT, allow you to specify the end-of-line sequence. The default is NL (0x15). You can also specify CRLF (0x0D25), CRNL (0x0D15), or an arbitrary specification of your choosing. The option is called "BFSLINE". Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
