RE: LF translation in QSH

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Chuck.

I'll try \r\n (and maybe just \r) when I get back to work on Thursday.

I appreciate the response.

Dennis Lovelady
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> On 3/9/11 12:32 PM, Dennis wrote:
> > <<SNIP>>
> > The reason I noticed this is that I sent a file like this to a
> > Windows system using ASCII mode, and the Windows system shows no LF
> > (of course), and instead views it as one streamed line.
> >
> > What would be the appropriate CCSID for me to use for such an
> > operation?  Following on to that, should I (not) be able to specify
> > one CCSID for most purposes and be done with it (assuming I'm only
> > using IBM i, Windows and Linux systems in US English)?  Or is CCSID
> > even the problem?!?!
> > Maybe I should be using something other than "...\n" in my
> > printf() ?
>
>    While *nix [and emulation] might be happy with the effects as coded,
> I think for output sent to Windoze, using the "\r\n" in the printf() is
> more desirable; i.e. "\r\n" used to effect CRLF which an application in
> Windoze might prefer [by default].
>
>    However I would have expected 0x0A for ASCII LF as translated from
> the EBCDIC 0x25 LF [Line Feed] which I expected from "\n", not the 0x85
> which appears to be the ASCII NEL [NExt Line] corresponding to the
> EBCDIC 0x15 NL [New Line] control character.  Hmmm, too long since I
> have used a printf() to recall accurately the effects for "\n" in
> EBCDIC... so maybe that will not resolve, even if 0x0D for "\r" should
> make a Windoze [text viewer\editor] program happier or at least the
> output prettier :-)
>
>    FWiW: the choices in ENDLINFMT() as with CYPTOSTMF, reflect the
> difference between what each OS might prefer [by default], and a user
> application might perform or offer something similar for when the
> target
> of the text data is known.
>
> Regards, Chuck
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