You can use the quad deblank command.

If your file is really large, you may have to bump your quadfilesize jcw...
:SETJCW QUADFILESIZE=16383
:QUAD
T <FILENAME>:U
DEBLANK ALL
KEEP:U
EXIT

Enjoy,

Paul Scott
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Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 11:52 AM
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Subject: [HP3000-L] deleteing blank lines in an ascii text file


Having a brain lapse I think...

Any easy way (short of writing a script) to take an MPE file (ASCII fixed
record size- NOT bytestream) and delete all the blank lines in it?
(resulting in an ascii non-bytestream file with only non-blank records?)

Have basic MPE/iX, MPEX, and quad to work with.

I thought I remembered some wildcard (like %blank% ? ) that you could use to
delete a blank line in Editor or Quad, but can't find it in either's help.

TIA,

 Chris Bartram

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