Trying out Relson-style replying today: >"...how can I append trailing blanks to a record in an existing file ..." Adding blanks to the end of a VB line is admittedly onerous (yet I figured it out in 2 minutes), but as no one ever needs to do that, it hardly matters.
>"... the editor saves changes in progress to a temporary file..." Do you have any evidence for that? The closest I've seen is a recovery file, which is hardly a straight copy of the edited file, and doesn't exist unless the RECOVERY option is used. >" F is an abomination..." I completely agree. It's sensible only for data with fixed fields, and otherwise generally wastes space. RECFM=FBA for print is particularly bad. sas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
