On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 16:21:46 -0500, Phil Smith III  wrote:

>Seymour J Metz wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Nope. Well, you can key it, but it won't "take". That's part of the
>definition of TRUNC.
> 
Bad definition.  XEDIT shouldn't entice users to enter data that 
t won't "take".  The field should have the read-only attribute.
Is there any rationale for making it writable?

-- 
gil

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