Specifications

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To make the BHT handle space characters as data

You can specify the handling of trailing spaces in a data field with System Mode or an XFILE

statement.

System Mode: To handle trailing spaces as data, select "Data" in FIELD SPACE item on

the SET PROTOCOL screen of the SET SYSTEM menu.

XFILE statement: To handle trailing spaces as data, specify T to "protocolspec" in

the

XFILE statement.

XFILE "d2.dat","T"

The figure below shows the process in which trailing spaces in a data field are handled as data

in the BHT.

412346ABCD

1234 ABCD

8a b c

234ABCD a b c

abc

Host computer

BHT

Field 1

Field 1 Field 2 Field 3

Field 2 Field 3

( denotes a space character.)

Downloading a data file

is the count byte of a significant

data length in a field.