Hi Peter
I think that the command prompt display panel has 20 display record formats
with the most common/popular field sizes defined - these being the 20 Scott
listed.
When the command is prompted, the system uses the closest record format for
each parameter. Doing it any other way would mean a load more record
formats and processing when the command is prompted.
Jonathan
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Scott,
it doesn't really make sense, but it does explain why I get 25 for the
19-char long parameter...
Thanks,
Peter Colpaert
Application Developer
PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium
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Re: Strange issue with CMD parameter length
Peter,
Take a look at the INLPMTLEN (initial prompt length) parameter of the
PARM command. You'll note that the possible values for the initial
prompt length are as follows:
*CALC, *PWD, 1-12, 17, 25, 32, 50, 80, 132, 256, 512
The default value is *CALC which means that the length will be
calculated -- that is, the closest length that's the same or higher than
the field size will be used.
Since the possible lengths are 1-12, 17, 25, 32 (and so forth) the
length for an 18 character field will be 25. (17 would be too small,
and the next highest number is 25.)
Make sense?
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