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We can get extra blank line(s) any number of ways. * Printing an explicit blank like line you said* Calling for vertical spacing without printing any lines, then printing some # lines later, which causes blank lines between last explicit printing * Keeping track of vertical placement of report in the program, by counting lines printed, to do some kind of vertical forms control, other than the standard foot of page controls
The spooler replicates the blank lines that the programmer called for. Same thing with sideways.Perhaps what you are asking is what happens if we make a copy of that report into some other venue. We copy a lot of AS/400 reports to the PC world, to go into Excel for example. Perhaps you are asking if the blank spaces are recognized there as blank spaces.
"GDS" <ggarner_gds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:mailman.44.1165250748.1743.midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Is this a situation where you are writing a paragraph and want to > concatenate sentence fragments or insert variable names into the wording? Gregory, No. Perhaps I should have been more clear. For standard 132-character wide reports, I am concerned about cases where a programmer has done something like this: 1) writes print line that is 132 bytes of spaces in order to skip a line 2) writes a line of 132 characters where the first 5 (for example) are significant followed by 127 spaces Will the spooler on the iSeries truncate these trailing extraneous spaces? -- Regards, Michael Rosinger Systems Programmer / DBA Computer Credit, Inc. 640 West Fourth Street Winston-Salem, NC 27101 336-761-1524 m rosinger at cciws dot com -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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