Re: MARGINS and WORDWRAP

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From: Mark Stevens
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 14:45

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On Aug 11,  1:58am "F. Scott Ophof" said:
>On Tue, 10 Aug 1993 13:52:27 GMT Ian Collier said:
>>In article <93220.005204U52983@uicvm.uic.edu>, Roger Deschner
>><U52983@uicvm.uic.edu> wrote:
>>>I think WORDWRAP came in at about VM/SP 3.0 or 4.0. There was a major
>>>XEDIT upgrade about then. I know 4.0 had it.
>>I have a printout of SET HELPXEDI made in August 1990 which does not
>>contain WORDWRAP.  It must be from CMS-4 (or above) because the "color" and
>>"reserved" settings have PSSes.
>
>Curioser still, I now know of two VM/SP rel 5 systems, one which had
>WORDWRAP before they turned off the big switch & retired it, and one
>which does not have it.  With IBM a lot of things are possible, but
>having a new VM/SP release without updating XEDIT causes my eyes to
>widen more than slightly.  Am I overlooking something?

Yes, local mods.  There was probably an XEDIT macro at the one site
that had WORDWRAP.  WORDWRAP is not native to VM/SP 4 or VM/SP 6 or
VM/ESA 1.0 370 Feature.  ;-)

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