On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:34:17 -0700, Ulrich Krueger wrote: > >If it's important for you to keep these reports in a format that allows >proper viewing of each page and also proper printing, I recommend you >convert each dataset into a PDF-file (and then FTP the PDF file in binary >format to the destination system). >There's a free program available, TXT2PDF: >http://cmtk3.webring.org/l/rd?ring=dinos;id=30;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Elbdsof >tware%2Ecom%2Fxmitip%2Ehtml >Optionally, you can create each report on a simulated green-bar paper. Look >in the options for TXT2PDF. > Sounds almost like overkill. And once the data are converted to PDF, it becomes difficult to extract them for further processing. Is there a TXT2TXT utility that will convert FORTRAN-style carriage motion codes to the standard USASCII equivalents such as <FF>, <VT>, ...?
And thinking about it, does ISPF BROWSE/VIEW support scrolling by the page markers in the data, perhaps with Page Up/Page Down keys? (Yah, I know, "You could write a macro to do that.") -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
