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  3. May 2003

RE: Fwd: Re: Maintaining "Notes" in an application

> From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
>
> I believe that I understand.  Instead of a notes file like BPCS' ECN file
> (which has four keys:
> note type,
> customer or order number,
> ship to number or order line number,
> note number),
> with a single fixed length for each line of notes you have one varying
> length field.  And html handles this quite nicely with the text keyword.
> No, I don't believe that 5250 has anything this flexible.

Actually, doesn't CNTFLD in conjunction with WRDWRAP do something like this?
I'm not a big fan of this technique but it seems to be just the ticket.

Joe

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