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Here are some questions that are frequently asked about vEdit in general, specifically about EBCDIC and our services..
vEdit Pro has no upper limit and can edit 100+ Gigabyte files.
Standard vEdit can edit any text, data, binary, etc files up to two (2) Gigabytes (2000 Megabytes) in size. To edit files larger than this, vEdit can be used to split the file into smaller parts, e.g., 1-Gigabyte parts, which can then be edited. After editing, the Windows "copy" command can be used to concatenate the parts back into one file
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Set CONFIG > Preferences > Printer > Print mode to 0=Win. Printing is then in the same mode as the display mode for the current window. The online help for the configuration box describes the print mode in more detail.
Since lines displayed in hex are three times as long as regular lines, they typically are truncated at the right side of the printed page. One solution to this is to set CONFIG, Preferences, Printer then Right margin to the number of characters per printed line, typically "80" or "96".
Press Ctrl-P to get the print dialog box. Then select Properties from which you can select Landscape mode.
For vEdit only: While in vEdit set CONFIG > Preferences > Printer > Paper orientation to "2=Landscape".. Printing is then in Landscape mode until changed again, or after vEdit is closed. If CONFIG, Auto-save config is checked, then the change also becomes "permanent" for each subsequent vEdit run. Otherwise, to make this printing option "permanent", click CONFIG then Save config.
Yes, the following command will convert a simple EBCDIC file, which already has a Carriage-Return / Line-Feed at the end of each line/record, into an ASCII file.
-c"Translate_Block(0,File_Size,REVERSE) XALL" file.ebc -a file.asc
In this command, 'file.ebc' is the original EBCDIC file and 'file.asc' is the name of the resulting ASCII file.
Simple EBCDIC files, without packed numeric fields, can be converted to ASCII using standard vEdit.
If the EBCDIC file already had a Carriage-Return / Line-Feed at the end of each line/record, you are done and can now save the file.
If not you must determine the record length for the EBCDIC file and set CONFIG > File handling > File type to the correct record length. You might be given the record length, or you can experiment. When it is correct, the fields on each line will be lined up on the screen.
Yes. You can convert a UNIX file with just Line-Feed characters to a Windows/DOS file with Carriage-Return and Line-Feed characters by selecting BLOCK, Convert newlines then UNIX to DOS.
You can automate the conversion with the command:
vpw -n3 -x convert.vdm filename
where 'filename' is the name of the file to be converted. The "-n3" is a special code to the convert.vdm macro which tells it to automatically perform the third item in its menu, i.e., "[3] UNIX to DOS LF to CR+LF".
Similarly "-n1" can be used to convert a file from Window/DOS to UNIX. The comments at the beginning of convert.vdm describe how to also convert between fixed-length records and "Newlines".
Beginning with vEdit 5.15 for Windows, the number of MRU files listed in the File menu can be changed by editing the value "MaxMRU" in the VEDIT.INI file.
Beginning with VEDIT 6.10, "Open with VEDIT" works correctly with Windows XP/7/8/8.1/10.
"Open with VEDIT" can be enabled / disabled by selecting CONFIG then Associate file types within vEdit.
For example:
copy /b part.001+part.002+part.003+part.004 bigfile.ful
This is very easy to do by simply highlighting a block and selecting FILE then </kbd>Save block as</kbd> to write the block to a file.
For example:
For editing large blocks, it is better to use F9 than the mouse.
Also, the function MISC, More macros and then Splitter can split a file.
A file is opened in Read-only mode (also called Browse-only mode) if its attributes are set to:
if you did not manually select [ ] Browse-only or FILE then Browse mode, then the operating system is preventing vEdit from making changes to the file. You will have to determine why the file is write-protected (you cannot force vEdit to edit).
For instance, a local file on your computer has the "Read-only" attribute set (This can be checked and disabled with Explorer); a network file may already be opened by another user, or; you may not have "write" access to the file.
vEdit typically opens database files with fixed-length records and binary files which, by default, are set to "Overwrite-only" mode. This is a safety precaution because these files tend to become corrupted if characters are deleted or inserted (causing the file size to change from a typical length of 64).
Therefore, when CONFIG, File handling, then File type is set to "8" or greater (specifying fixed-length records), Overwrite-only mode is enabled by default.
You can easily turn off Overwrite-only mode by setting CONFIG, Preferences, File handling then Overwrite-only mode to "0".