> Does it matter? Not if you don't care whether the text is in the right column in your previous request.
> I accept that as a limitation of the 327x data stream design. I've exploited > it >at times to insert a character such as ';' at the end of a line when the cursor >is inconveniently far: Which is precisely why users would be unhappy if IBM changed that behavior. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 2:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF Question - browsing variable length records On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 17:39:09 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> Why not? The host should transmit characters counted by the RDW, then NULs >> to the end >> of the field. Characters typed over those NULs would be returned to the >> host on Read >> Modified; the NULs ignored. > >Yes, ignored, not transmitted to the host. There will be no way to know which >null the user overtyped with a space. > Does it matter? I accept that as a limitation of the 327x data stream design. I've exploited it at times to insert a character such as ';' at the end of a line when the cursor is inconveniently far: Tab to next line. Back-arrow twice. Type ';' ENTER. The ';' scoots to where I want it. If blanks were treated by Edit as ordinary characters, even as 3270 does, that ';' would appear after the blanks. If I didn't want that, I shouldn't have inserted the blanks in the first place. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
