Re: Clear entire field vs substring -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Clear entire field vs substring
From: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 13:05:54 -0400
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On 2012-05-23, at 1:00 PM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Jon, I sort of recall a conversation about that, but not the details.
Maybe I was explaining that we _couldn't_ set the unused chars to blank
because of compatibility (assuming we'd even want to).

Don't know Barbara - I've clearly slept too many times since then!

I do know from this thread that I have to go back and experiment to see just what happens when.

Jon Paris

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