Wasn't it the case that XEDIT reads a BFS file twice? First to determine
LRECL based on line-ends found. Then it reads the file again to store it
in its buffer
Kris Buelens,
--- freelance z/VM consultant, Belgium ---
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2016-04-19 17:09 GMT+02:00 Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>:
> On 2016-04-19, at 08:23, Alan Altmark wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, 04/19/2016 at 02:04 GMT, Paul Gilmartin <
> [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >> How does XEDIT deal with BFS files which have no width, filetype, etc.?
> >> (We don't have BFS configured.)
> >
> > A text file will have CRLF or LF in it. See
> > http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/altmarka/profile.xedit
> >
> > XEDIT can be told the linend sequence.
> >
> Sir Rob provided a more specific answer:
>
> On 2016-04-19, at 01:17, Rob van der Heij wrote:
> >
> > PS On BFS, XEDIT has those too. Like this top line display:
> >
> > Trust No 1 V 255 Trunc=255 Size=0 Line=1 Col=1 Alt=0
> >
> Still an unfortunate choice. For BFS, the Width and Trunc default
> should be, "Doesn't matter", or "As much as you like".
>
> -- gil
>
