You could try HEXTYPE, it might give you what you are looking for. Not the
best looking screen, but it may help.
.-1------.
>>--HEXType--+--------+----------------------------------------------
|-target-|
'-*------'
Purpose
Use the HEXTYPE macro to display a specified number of lines in both
hexadecimal and EBCDIC.
Paul Feller
AIT Mainframe Technical Support
-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Schuh, Richard
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 4:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: XEDIT Question
That is true, and they do not contain trailing blanks. However, ver h 1 * will
pad the display with trailing x'40's on any short record.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of P S
> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 2:28 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: XEDIT Question
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Schuh, Richard
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Suppose you are editing a file that has RECFM V and you want to see
> > the hex translation. You enter the command VER H 1 *, and you are
> > immediately presented with the hex data. Is there any way
> to prevent
> > XEDIT from padding short records with x'40's? Any way short of
> > rewriting a chunk of the XEDIT code, that is.
>
> No.
>
> CMS RECFM V non-executable files "aren't supposed to" have
> trailing blanks.
>
> (At least, that's the philosophy!)
>
