Spanned lines

If a printed line of double-byte data exceeds its specified page width (line length), the system tries to continue printing the data. To do this, the system ignores the FOLD parameter on the CRTPRTF, CHGPRTF, and OVRPRTF commands. As a result, the system might not print the double-byte data as you expected and the following occurs:

• If a record to be printed exceeds the page width, the printer wraps the data (continues printing the record on the next line). Because the system is not aware that the data is wrapped, the system does not skip lines and start new pages properly. A new page might start in the middle of a record.
• The printer does not split double-byte characters when there is not enough room at the end of a line and a field of double-byte data is continued on a second printed line, even if you specified the CHRSIZ keyword. Instead, the system leaves a blank space on the first line where the character would have been printed and continues printing the complete character on the next line.