On Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:26:58 +0000, Farley, Peter wrote: >Follow-up on my own post: It turns out when there are stray non-text >characters in the original file, "cp" then thinks it is "binary" format and so >copies it verbatim with no translation, hence no conversion or line-end >characters in the Unix fle. > ... What's a non-text character in IBM-1047? Anything below x'40'?
Long ago, Linkage Editor put nulls in SYSPRINT, as if it had preset the buffer with XC then populated it sporadically. Worked fine on 3211; not so good on ssh terminal. IBM fixed promptly with APAR. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
