Re: WDSCI-L Digest, Vol 4, Issue 636

message: 3
date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:16:04 -0500
from: Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Conversion to free form

The information is lost anyway because the compiler complains and then
it is extremely time consuming to go thru every line and manually

delete

the offending characters.  Prior to V5R4 the compiler ignored anything
in cc1-5 now it doesn't.  

There are several options available to you, all rely on the idea that 
you want to erase the first 5 columns.

Record keystrokes Home, space x 5, down arrow
Play it back over every line.

Use block overlay to overlay a hunk of spaces over the top of columns 
1-5.  (Alt-R, Alt-R, Alt-Z)

Use LLT5 on line 1, llt5 on the last line (sequence number commands) 
then RR5, RR.  This will shift all lines left 5 and truncate the first 5

columns, then shift 'em all back.  You WILL get syntax errors, but 
they'll go away when you RR5 the lines back.

Go to the top, Alt-L, go to the bottom, Alt-L (select all lines as a 
block) then slowly use Alt-F7 to shift left -- Lpex will throw errors so

you have to wait for the syntax checker to moan about your (now) crappy 
code before you ust Alt-F7 again.  Do that 5 times, then do Alt-F8 5 
times.  Alt-U when done.

Write a macro to do it.  (too much for me at the moment; I'd open it in 
Code and do it in Rexx.  That's not a gripe as much as an admission of 
my own laziness.)
   --buck

Thanks for the tip.  It sure is quicker than doing it one line at a
time.  I have never used the shift commands so I didn't even think about
them.  Again thanks