How about an ISPF Edit macro?
Here's one:
/* REXX EDIT MACRO TO FLOW ENTIRE MEMBER TO SPECIFIED COLUMN */
'ISREDIT MACRO (COLUMN)'
'ISREDIT (NUMLIN) = LINENUM .ZL'
COUNT = 1
DO WHILE COUNT <= NUMLIN - 1
'ISREDIT TFLOW 'COUNT' 'COLUMN''
COUNT = COUNT + 1
'ISREDIT (NUMLIN) = LINENUM .ZL'
END
With the macro above, entering "FLOW2 72" on the command line would do
what you want, I think. Put it in a member of a PDS(E) concatenated to
SYSEXEC.
Charles Mills wrote:
It's a totally reasonable "non-mainframey" text file. It has no carriage
returns except at logical points, not at an arbitrary line width point.
Most e-mails you get follow this convention (other than old listserves that
break up lines like this one).
It has nothing to do with MS-Word but yes, MS-Word also follows this convention.
No, the lines are nowhere near of equal length.
Fold would probably work. I have z/OS of course.
But as I said I now have the problem solved. Several good solutions presented
here.
Charles
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Subject: Re: Breaking text file at position 72?
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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