QUIZ record EOF truncates blanks

Pickering, John (NORBORD) PICKERIJ@norbord.com
Fri, 2 Mar 2001 14:11:43 -0500


Ooops -- make that "fcopy ;hex;char"

Must be Friday.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Pickering, John (NORBORD) 
> Sent:	Friday, March 02, 2001 2:09 PM
> To:	'Karman, Al'; Powerh-L@sphere.swau.edu
> Subject:	RE: QUIZ record EOF truncates blanks
> 
> What are using to "examine rec contents"? Listing it to your screen with
> an editor or displaying it with the print command, with display functions
> turned on will show the cr after the last non-blank character. Try fcopy
> ;hex;display for a true file dump.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Karman, Al [SMTP:AKarman@USFreightways.com]
> Sent:	Friday, March 02, 2001 2:00 PM
> To:	Powerh-L@sphere.swau.edu
> Subject:	QUIZ record EOF truncates blanks
> 
> Greetings to the -L...
>  
> I have a fairly straightforward QUIZ proc which outputs a disc file.  The
> last 6x bytes of the record are defined conditionally (CHA*6) and as such
> aren't always going to be blank.
>  
> When :LISTF,2 is run, the disc file shows correct rec len.  When I examine
> rec contents, a carriage return is coming up BEFORE my conditional CHA*6
> field.
>  
> What did I neglect to prevent this?
>  
> T I A!!
> 
> Al Karman 
> IT Consultant 
> US Freightways 
> akarman@usfreightways.com 
> 
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