RE: Text editiing

["Martin, Booth" <BoothM@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there a varying but maximum length possibility?  

In DDS there is the keyword CNTFLD that allows what you are asking.  A
132-column green screen with 27 rows allows a lot of room  (18 rows times
130 columns is well over a 2,000 characters field.)

     A            COMMENT   R        B  1  2CNTFLD(130)        
     A                                      CHECK(LC)          


-----Original Message-----
From: Klein Ron [mailto:ron.klein@brctsg.com]
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 9:40 AM
To: boothm@goddard.edu
Subject: Text editiing


Hi All,
We have a program with which we edit a varying length field and when we
place this field in the file we add a tilde at the end of each line that is
displayed.  On the screen we show this field as a 30 character field.  When
we load this field we add a tilde whenever the user hits enter on the screen
or every 30 characters whichever is smaller.

So in our file we would have something like this:This is the time for us~to
fix this problem the in the r~ight way.~

We need to figure out a way for the text to shift on a blank space and move
it to the next line.

Does any one have a procedure or maybe a c runtime procedure or advise on
how I should go about doing this.

TIA
Ron
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