Re: Understanding Error Messages

On Sun, 11 May 2008 22:13:30 -0300, Clark F Morris
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> wrote:

>On Sun, 11 May 2008 23:52:10 GMT, "William M. Klein"
><wmklein@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>"amir" <ahsharif@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>news:37df9c12-26be-4735-8430-e731e97ab79b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> On May 10, 2:28 pm, Robert <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>><snip>
>>> I can send the file to everyone through attachment.
>>> But, I can not copy and paste it. Maybe some incompatibility between
G!
>>> Groups editor and Windows. I don't know.
>>> Best,
>>
>>As I said in private email (after finding out that he was using ISPF to
edit the 
>>file)
>>
>>1) Change to HEX MODE and look at the non-visible characters (the
listing tells 
>>which line and column) and if they aren't X'40' - then change them.
>>
>>2) More im****tantly, if this file was NOT uploaded from the PC and only
worked 
>>on via ISPF, there is a bigger problem - figuring out HOW the
non-visible 
>>characters got into the file in the first place.
>>
>>P.S.  I can't remember.  What is the ISPF command to find "non[visible" 
>>characters?  It has a "p" and an "=" in it, as I recall, but I can't
remember 
>>the exact syntax (and don't use ISPF any more).
>
>
>I think it is f p"=" but somehow the "=" seems wrong.  Nulls on might
>have caused the x"00" although the nulls should have been changed to
>spaces on save.

It is f p'.'.

I upload lots of stuff from the PC to the mainframe and I always just
automatically edit the uploaded member with C x'20' x'40' all.  That's
the only ASCII character that is usually in a text do***ent.

Regards,
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