On 07/14/2008 12:35:26 AM Alan Altmark wrote: > 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
Thanks, Alan. Good feature. Douglas Wooster ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
