On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:22:40 +0000 Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
:>I believe that XEDIT and UPDATE are substantially as they were in VM/SP R2, except that starting with R3 you could write your macros in REXX. :>With Trunc 71 and Verify 1-72, text won't inadvertently spill over from comments into the continuation column. You can still key a character into column 72. Not when I try. It gets erased after pressing enter. :>________________________________________ :>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Binyamin Dissen [[email protected]] :>Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 7:23 AM :>To: [email protected] :>Subject: XEDIT assembler continuation lines :> :>Hope that I am not doing too many newbie questions. I did a lot of VM in the :>80s, including mods to CP and CMS, but either my memory isn't good or things :>changed quite a bit. :> :>Why is TRUNC set, by default, at 71 for ASSEMBLE files? Is there some tricky :>was to put in a continuation character or must I reset TRUNC? -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
