R.S. wrote:
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
In a recent note, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" said:
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:57:30 -0300
That said, others have told you about UNNUM; that will indeed delete
those sequence numbers, which in fact are not annoying.
It appeared to me that the OP, perhaps using ISPF as the editor-
of-choice, was composing data to be exported as input to a desktop
program. Many such programs treat all available columns as data,
in which case those sequence numbers are, in fact, annoying.
Perhaps you feel that all utilities, on all platforms, should
process only columns 1-72 of their input data. Ain't gonna
happen.
Even some mainframe programs interpret it as data, with funny effects
somtimes. For example SYSIN DD * for FTP program cannot contain the
numbers. AFAIK some TCPIP config files as well.
AFAIK the sequence numbers are completely useless nowadays. It was used
for punched card sorter. Is there any other application ?
Well, the last two digits are a level number, so you can tell which
lines have changed at different levels. I don't care so much about
that, but I can see that some people might.
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
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