Back in Yore, who ever thought we'd need more than 640K or 8M?

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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
>



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Gregg Reed
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