On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 21:25:34 +0000, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:
>Text consisting of paragraphs with no indentions or blank lines seems like a
>pretty odd notion of 'paragraphs'. ...
>
It's MS Word's convention. Pressing ENTER inserts a ΒΆ.
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 14:32:11 -0700, Sri h Kolusu wrote:
>>
>If the data that Charles is processing contains paragraphs without
>intervening blank lines, all the paragraphs will be flowed together, not
>likely what he wants. Also, he mentioned that some of the lines
>are several thousand bytes long.
>
>DFSORT has resize operator which can split long records into short records
>and merge the short records into long records. So as you mentioned Text
>flow needs a blank to work with, but DFSORT doesn't need one. Here is a
>sample. The only requirement is that the input dataset need to have
>RECFM=FB
I wonder whether Charles's records are of equal length? Or whether he cah
pad them?
I still recommend:
fold -sw72 file.text
z/OS has it. Linux has it. MacOS has it. I'd expect Windows 10 to have it.
-- gil
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