On 2018-12-10, at 15:44:31, Charles Mills wrote: > It has nothing to do with MS-Word but yes, MS-Word also follows this > convention. No, the lines are nowhere near of equal length. Fold would > probably work. I have z/OS of course. But as I said I now have the problem > solved. Several good solutions presented here. It's a totally reasonable > "non-mainframey" text file. It has no carriage returns except at logical > points, not at an arbitrary line width point. Most e-mails you get follow > this convention (other than old listserves that break up lines like this one). > Does it? I hadn't noticed.
And automatic text flowing/paragraphing can be infuriating when someone posts a code sample as earlier today. In fact in that sample, alternate blanks appeared as NBSP. And Shmuel (sometimes; not always) manages to send posts that don't soft wrap when I resize the window. Perhaps he uses NBSP rather than SP. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
