Realia Cobol

In taking over the responsibility for a machine with a Realia Cobol
compiler, I have noticed that the output files from cobol programs have tab
characters in them for spaces.  Would anyone know why this is happening and
how to stop it.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ray Bletko wrote:
> In taking over the responsibility for a machine with a Realia Cobol
> compiler, I have noticed that the output files from cobol programs
> have tab characters in them for spaces.  Would anyone know why this
> is happening and how to stop it.  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

It's part of the file definition.

SELECT OUT-FILE ASSIGN TO 'MYFILE.TXT[T]'...

The "T" on the end signifies TAB separators for text files in columns 1, 9,
17, 25, 33, etc.

Two other choices are available:

"[N]" = text file but truncate trailing spaces.
"[U]" = text file bit trailing spaces are retained

You can stop it by recompiling the program with either an "N" or "U" in the
file description.

You can also remove the tabs by copying the file using the Realia utility,
viz:

REALCOPY   INFILE.TXT[T]   OUTFILE.TXT[N]

Realia permits oodles of other file types, too.
[V]ariable
[C]ompressed
[F]ixed length
[D] - Fixed length with delete byte
[R]elative
[B]yte stream
[X] - Indexed

"HeyBub" <heybubNOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote in
news:12hjls4g9ashe50@news.supernews.com:

> Ray Bletko wrote: 
>
> It's part of the file definition.
>
> SELECT OUT-FILE ASSIGN TO 'MYFILE.TXT[T]'...
>
> The "T" on the end signifies TAB separators for text files in columns
> 1, 9, 17, 25, 33, etc.
>
> Two other choices are available:
>
>    "[N]" = text file but truncate trailing spaces.
>    "[U]" = text file bit trailing spaces are retained
>
> You can stop it by recompiling the program with either an "N" or "U"
> in the file description.
>
> You can also remove the tabs by copying the file using the Realia
> utility, viz:
>
> REALCOPY   INFILE.TXT[T]   OUTFILE.TXT[N]
>
> Realia permits oodles of other file types, too.
> [V]ariable
> [C]ompressed
> [F]ixed length
> [D] - Fixed length with delete byte
> [R]elative
> [B]yte stream
> [X] - Indexed
>
>
>

Thanks for the info, your reply is greatly appreciated

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example.

Many thanks

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>
> Thanks for the info, your reply is greatly appreciated
>