Microsoft KB Archive/21109

/C Switch Truncates Trailing Blanks in Line Sequential Records

PSS ID Number: Q21109 Article last modified on 11-16-1992

2.00 2.10 2.20 MS-DOS

Summary: Version 2.00 truncates trailing blanks from the records in a Line Sequential file by default. The /C runtime switch (Compress) truncates trailing blanks from the records in a Line Sequential file. This switch was added in the update from Microsoft COBOL Version 2.00 to Version 2.10. Please note that if an attempt is made to REWRITE a record (i.e., creating a record longer than was originally written), only the number of bytes originally written will be rewritten.

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