On Wed, 1 May 2013 07:43:42 -0400, Charles Mills wrote:

>A profile option for the ISPF editor. PRESERVEBLANKS or something like that.
> 
PRESERVE, simply, IIRC.  And (as documented) it preserves not trailing
blanks but line legths.  If you insert characters it deletes trailing blanks;
if you delete characters it adds trailing blanks to compensate.

I wonder who requested that.

>I am surprised that ISPF 3.3 would do that, but try IEGENER in batch. I
>would be stunned if it does that.
> 
ISPF 3.3 has done that for 30 years in my experience.  And worse: it even
removed trailing blanks copying VB to VB.

IEBGENER is your friend.

>A SITE option for FTP. PRESERVEBLANKS or something like that.

Or, FTP to a UNIX file.  FTP is more honest in that case.

-- gil

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