| Title: | *OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference |
| Notice: | Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1 |
| Moderator: | IOSG::PYE |
| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 23 1996 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 4343 |
| Total number of notes: | 18308 |
While putting together a simple boilerplate to wrap some IBM JCL around
a text file (created with FORTRAN carriage control, i.e., "1"s in
column #1 to force page breaks), I discovered that ALL-IN-1 is quite
happy to read this file and merge it, but that the "1"s are converted
to "normal" Form-feed characters.
I would like to retain the original file format and before embarking on
lots of combinations of RMS attribute/file extension/FDL conversion
changes I thought I'd check to see if anyonw has dealt with this
before. (There are no FORTRAN or Carriage-control note titles in this
conference).
Don
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1476.1 | Post your BLP and indicate what you *really* want? | SANFAN::LESLIE_DA | Greetings & Solutions | Tue Sep 22 1992 19:05 | 12 |
Please post the basics of your BLP (it may help to determine what needs
to happen to maintain your formatting).
I would recommend not doing include of the file in your BLP (as
ALL-IN-1 will create output in a format it understands (and I don't
think FORTRAN carriage control is one of them).
What are you trying to accomplish with the output file? Does it *need*
to be in FORTRAN carriage control format?
Other ideas?
Dan
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| 1476.2 | The brute-force solution | INFACT::BEVIS | This Foolishness Surely Offends me | Tue Sep 22 1992 19:53 | 27 |
What I'm doing is inserting a text file, basically the following;
------------------------------------------------------------
//jcl statement
//jclstatement <#symbol1>
<&INCLUDE printfile.txt>
//jclstatement <#othersymbol>
//jclstatement
------------------------------------------------------------
Where printfile.txt is a file created with FORTRAN carriage control. I
found that MERGE JCL.BLP, RESULT.TXT produces the results of the
preceding boilerplate, but ALL-IN-1 produces <FF> characters where the
FORTRAN carriage-control ("1" in column 1) had been in printfile.txt.
In order to get the IBM printer to correctly process page-breaks, it
was necessary to generate FORTRAN carriage control. There does not
seem to be a way for the SNA gateway to properly convert <FF>
characters into page-breaks.
At the moment, I am now merging TWO .BLPS, then DCL COPYing two halves
of the JCL with the FORTAN file in between - which works, although it
isn't pretty. I suppose an ALL-IN-1 APPEND may work as well, but I
didn't try that.
Don
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| 1476.3 | Might not be ALL-IN-1 | IOSG::TALLETT | Arranging bits for a living... | Tue Sep 22 1992 21:44 | 8 |
I'm not sure I understood correctly, but if you created a file
with FORTRAN carriage control characters and the RMS attributes
set, then RMS will convert the control chars before ALL-IN-1
even sees them...
Regards,
Paul
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