On 07/14/2008 11:07:41 AM Alan Altmark wrote: > On Monday, 07/14/2008 at 10:58 EDT, Douglas Wooster/Raleigh/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > On 07/14/2008 12:35:26 AM Alan Altmark wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Thanks, Alan. Good feature. > > I meant to say, too, that my PROFILE XEDIT looks at the first 150 > characters of any BFS file I edit *before* I issue the LOAD subcommand > (PIPE BFS). If it finds CRLF, CRNL, NL, or LF, it sets BFSLINE > appropriately. Once I did that, I never again had a problem with an > uploaded text file from Windows, Unix, DOS, OS/2, MVS, or any other > platform.
Eminently sensible. Being able to look at the file before it's loaded is one feature of the original XEDIT that the off-VM clones don't seem to have. Douglas Wooster > > 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
