On Apr 29, 2009, at 10:43, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:

Will spacebar work?

No, but that thought and a quick experiment with the results of PARSE
EXTERNAL made the problem more obvious:  The record format defaults
to F
80.  So this fixes it:

  ALLOCATE FILE(SYSTSIN) DATASET(*) RECFM(V) LRECL(2563)

I'm mystified.  What went wrong with F 80?  (Not that I ever
saw anything right about F 80.)

-- gil

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