Binyamin Dissen wrote: >Hope that I am not doing too many newbie questions. I did a lot of VM in the
>80s, including mods to CP and CMS, but either my memory isn't good or things >changed quite a bit. No such thing as "too many" REAL questions (not "Do my homework for me"!) >Why is TRUNC set, by default, at 71 for ASSEMBLE files? Is there some tricky >was to put in a continuation character or must I reset TRUNC? I'm not sure I can make a convincing argument as to WHY it's set there, but it's easily fixed in your PROFILE XEDIT. I did that in maybe 1983. My best guess is "because", as in, "That's how it was in XEDIT V0.1 and because it was so easy to change, nobody ever did". You could also use a tiny macro: /* CC XEDIT */ 'COMMAND PRESERVE' 'COMMAND SET TRUNC 72' 'COMMAND CLOCATE :72' 'COMMAND SET ZONE 72 72' 'COMMAND CINSERT *' 'COMMAND RESTORE' The greatest thing about XEDIT is how easy it is to do things like this. My XEDIT is almost unrecognizable to a newbie because it's so heavily customized (including things like tinkering with the CMS messages file via an override, so even the top and bottom lines are different). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
