Enables insertion of tab characters in all line sequential files.
Restriction: These switches are supported for native COBOL only.
Properties:
Default:
Off
Type:
File handling
Comments:
This switch is especially useful if the format of your files is incompatible with this COBOL system.
On output to disk, multiple spaces before a tab stop position are written as one tab character. The T switch does not affect
any trailing spaces as these are not part of the line sequential record, and they are removed on output. Tab positions are
every 8 character positions (for example, 9, 17, 25) and cannot be changed.
On input, tab characters are always expanded to spaces to the next position, regardless of the setting of the T switch.
With this switch set to off, all spaces in a line sequential file are written to disk as space characters.
Comments:
This switch is especially useful if the format of your files is incompatible with this COBOL system.
On output to disk, multiple spaces before a tab stop position are written as one tab character. The T switch does not affect any trailing spaces as these are not part of the line sequential record, and they are removed on output. Tab positions are every 8 character positions (for example, 9, 17, 25) and cannot be changed.
On input, tab characters are always expanded to spaces to the next position, regardless of the setting of the T switch.
With this switch set to off, all spaces in a line sequential file are written to disk as space characters.