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Note that machine controls print before performing any required spacing.
There are many more machine control commands than ANSI. Carriage
controls may be present in a print file or not, but every record in the file
must contain a carriage control if the controls are to be used. If the file
contains carriage controls, but CC=NO is specified to ACIF, the carriage
controls will be treated as printing characters. If no carriage controls are
specified, the file will be printed as though it were single spaced.
Machine Command
X'09' Print the line and single space
X'11' Print the line and double space
X'19' Print the line and triple space
X'01' Print the line and don't space
X'0B' Space one line immediately (don't print)
X'89' Print the line, then skip to channel 1 (top of form, by
convention)
X'8B' Skip to channel 1 immediately (don't print)
Understanding common methods of transferring files to AIX from other
systems
You can transfer files from other systems to AIX using a variety of methods. Each
method results in a different set of possible outputs. Some methods produce output
that cannot be used by ACIF. Methods commonly used to transfer files from other
systems to AIX and produce output that ACIF can use are:
Physical media (such as tape)
PC file transfer program
FTP
Physical media
Normally, you can copy fixed-length files without any transformation using a
physical media such as tape. For variable-length files, however, either the creator
of the tape or the copy program must include a 2-byte binary length as a prefix to
each record.
PC file transfer program
You may transfer files from other systems to AIX using a PC file transfer program
such as IND$FILE. You may also transfer files from a host to a personal computer.
The variety of possible parameters that can affect printing are host-dependent. IBM
recommends the following:
For OS/390 or MVS and VM/CMS files, the default is binary.
For CICS and VSE, binary is recommended.
For files with fixed-length records, binary is recommended (you must know the
record length).
For files with variable-length records that contain only printable characters and
either ANSI carriage control characters, or no carriage control characters:
– Use ASCII and CRLF
– Specify the control statement INPEXIT=asciinpe to remove the otherwise
unprintable carriage return (X'0D') that is inserted in the file.
182 ACIF User’s Guide