Re: Resizing prompt fields

I can't say with certainty but I believe this worked on the S/38 even.

It most certainly worked that way on the S/38. Probably since release 1 :)

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 3:33 PM Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis <
midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I can't say with certainty but I believe this worked on the S/38 even.
:-) I do know it worked on the V1R1 of OS/400.

One source of information is to prompt the PARM command and read the
help text for the Initial Prompt Length (second to last Parm in Parm.)
That sets the initial length displayed. The default is full length.

With this you'll see that there is an upper limit and not all parameters
can be effectively expanded. That is, you can expand them but the
acceptable parameter length often is fixed such as 10 for program name
or library for example.

- L

On 6/14/2021 3:18 PM, Patrik Schindler wrote:

Hello Rob,

Am 14.06.2021 um 21:03 schrieb Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>:

Let's go back to command prompting 101. If you type in &, and only &,

into that field and press enter it makes it bigger. Thus it would allow a
longer file name. You can repeat it, multiple times, to make it even
bigger.

Now this is really interesting! Where can I read more about that

capability?

:wq! PoC

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