On 2016-04-21, at 19:38, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote: > On 4/19/2016 11:09 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>>> 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". > > That would require XEDIT to use whole a different model for the file in > storage. XEDIT's model has always been a set of fixed-length records, > which it pads on loading and strips on saving if the file is RECFM V. > It needs to know the WIDTH before it can load the file. > In days of yore, wouldn't it have saved storage, then precious, if it had stripped the blanks on input rather than on output?
-- gil
