RE: Amending a File in the IFS

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Dodkins
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 10:05 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Amending a File in the IFS

Hi

I am using the following command to copy a file to the IFS
and then email it out from the iSeries

CPYTOPCD FROMFILE(CURQUERY/PURCHEDI5) TOFLR(STEVE) +
TODOC(EDI.TXT) REPLACE(*YES) TRNTBL(*DFT) +
TRNFMT(*TEXT)

However the file copied to the IFS contain a character 
at the end of the file but on at the beginning of the next line

Is there a way I can remove this character ?

Regards

Steve Dodkins

I don't know where it is coming from, but when I cut'n'paste it, I end
up with a 0x1A or a control-z. In the old days of CP/M-80, MS-DOS, and
Windows, that character was considered an "end of file" character. If
this were in a UNIX file, then you could run a UNIX command:

tr -d '\032' <input.file >output.file

'\032' is the octal escape for the hex 0x1A.

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