PK64748: cleardiffmrg incorrectly compains about 'use of vertical tabs or a line of text that is too long'

APAR status

• Closed as Vendor Solution.

Error description

• For some input files, cleardiffmrg ends with the error dialog
  
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  Diff Merge
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  An error in cleardiffmrg has occurred. This may have resulted fr
  om the use of vertical tabs or
  a line of text that is too long and exceeds the functional limit
  s of the cleardiffmrg tool. If this
  is an XML file use the XML Diff Merge tool instead. Doing the Di
  ff Merge from the command
  line is also an option.
  ---------------------------
  OK
  ---------------------------
  
  even though the line lengths are well under 8000 bytes and there
   are no vertical tabs.
  
  The file can be any file in the file list
  cleardifmrg file1 file2 [file3 ...]
  

Local fix

Problem summary

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

• This error message is intended to prevent diff/merge issues
  when the Rich Edit Control 3.0 used in Diff tool starts to
  wrap long lines of text. This is a 3rd party (operating
  system) restriction. There is no good way to identify where
  the wordwrap will be for a given font name and/or font size.
  

APAR Information

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• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

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