Hmmm.  Must have been the Xerox printer limit then.

On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 19:03:29 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote:
>
>>Older versions of ISPF edit required VB 251 or less.
>>JES2 maximum printable characters on a line is 240.
>>
> Nope.  An SDSF display:
>
>  SDSF OUTPUT DISPLAY userGENR JOB07738  DSID   103 LINE 0       COLUMNS 421- 
> 552
>  COMMAND INPUT ===>                                            SCROLL ===> CSR
> ********************************* TOP OF DATA 
> *************************************************************************************
> n #  ---- -------- -------- ------ --------  ----------------------- #  $X1= 
> D136984  R8BASEN  060303 ADAMSON : JES NJE over TCP/IP
> 9/tcp           sink null discard         9/udp           sink null systat    
>       11/tcp          users daytime         13/tcp day
>      42/tcp          name            # IEN 116 whois           43/tcp         
>  nicname domain          53/tcp          nameserver
>          111/tcp sunrpc          111/udp auth            113/tcp         
> authentication sftp            115/tcp uucp-path       117/
>          1512/udp         comsat login           513/tcp who             
> 513/udp         whod shell           514/tcp         cmd
>
> (Some of my lines may have contained non-"printable" characters, but I'm
> confident that some line contained at least 241 "printable" characters.)
>
>>Almost no one uses lines longer than 132 characters.
>>VBA 133 should work unless you have an application that uses long print lines.
>>
> ... unless ...
> (Please don't ask, "Who has a printer with that many hammers, anyway?")
>
> -- gil
>
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