If you're converting one file and you're not already in EDIT, then the script is simpler.
-- 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: Monday, July 13, 2020 11:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Concatenating lines On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:40:21 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Yes, but you will still need to insert the blank line as a terminator. If >there are leading blanks then you may need manual correction with, e.g., TJ. >If I had to do it often then I'd write an EDIT macro and be done with it. > Is this better, or even simpler, than the Rexx script that Lionel et al. proposed? And, what's the longest line the OP expects? Could the OP just use long lines and eliminate the concatenation complexity? -- 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
