Re: V5R2: Source now allowed in the IFS

Phil/Rob,

>For the IFS, all the 'whitespace' is removed.
>
>Try creating a IFS file with all the lines filled out to 92 chars...

But that is the point; trailing whitespace is not needed with a stream file in
the IFS.  Not only that, but with a "real" editor <g> you can convert leading
and embedded whitespace to use a combination of tabs and spaces.  With RPG
source, that leads to some substantial space savings.  Plus any decent file
viewer, difference compare/merge tool, change mgmt system, etc will still work
just fine with tabbed source files.

I did this all the time with Flex/Edit.  I'd set it to auto-run "Detab" when
opening a source flie stored in a PC directory, and run "Entab" when saving the
file.  Not as efficient as real RLE compression like SSP did for source members
on the 32/34/36, but still significantly smaller than embedded blanks.  Which
itself is significantly smaller than fixed width statements with trailing
blanks.

That said, although a PF-SRC is not very space efficient, I don't think it is a
significant factor in the average 400's total DASD consumption.  On every
machine I've checked, the total DASD consumed by all source members was
insignificant compared to data in physical files.

Doug