# Delimiter option in Map editor in Unix platform

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/delimiter-option-in-map-editor-in-unix-platform/60836>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Linux, Natural-on-Windows-Unix\
**Created:** [April 19, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/delimiter-option-in-map-editor-in-unix-platform/60836 "2006-04-19T15:56:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jawahar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@Jawahar](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Jawahar)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/delimiter-option-in-map-editor-in-unix-platform/60836/1 "2006-04-19T15:56:17Z")

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We are using Natural on Unix platform. But when editing a map in UNIX platform, the map setting screen does not showing the Delimiters option. Any help on this would be more helpful.

Regards,

Jawahar.A

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**Author:** ![Matthias1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@Matthias1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Matthias1)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/delimiter-option-in-map-editor-in-unix-platform/60836/2 "2006-04-19T16:13:50Z")

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What do you mean with “Delimiters option”?  
The Map-Profile on Windows should be exactly the same as on Unix.  
On Windows you get into that profile with Map \> Map Profile …  
On Unix this is Ops. Map \> Prof. Map

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**Author:** ![Jawahar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@Jawahar](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Jawahar)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/delimiter-option-in-map-editor-in-unix-platform/60836/3 "2006-04-19T16:23:35Z")

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I went in to Ops.Map option on Map editor. the following window pop up. but on mainframe, the Delimiters are displayed along with the below.

±-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+  
| NATURAL MAP EDITOR (Esc to select field) |  
|Cr±Map Settings----------------------------------------------------------+ |  
±-|Format Context |—+  
|------------------------- ------------------------- |  
|Page Size …: 23 |  
|Line Size …: 79 WRITE Statement …: N |  
|Layout …: |  
| dynamic …: N Help Routine …: |  
|Zero Print …: N Help Parameter …: |  
|Upper Case …: Y as field default .: N |  
|Manual Skip …: N Help Text …: N |  
|Decimal Char …: . Position Line …: 0 Column : 0 |  
|Standard Keys .: N AutoRuleRank …: 1 |  
|Right Justify .: Y |

| Print Mode …: Filler Characters |
| --- |
| Control Var …: Optional, Partial .: \_ |
| Required, Partial .: \_ |
| Field Sensitive: N Optional, Complete : \_ |
| Required, Complete : \_ |
| ±----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |

Modify map profile

please let me know why it differs from the mainframe.

regards,  
Jawahar.A

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**Author:** ![Matthias1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@Matthias1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Matthias1)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/delimiter-option-in-map-editor-in-unix-platform/60836/4 "2006-04-19T17:13:59Z")

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> please let me know why it differs from the mainframe.

Sorry, I cannot answer this question, because I never worked on a mainframe. But there are some people with mainframe-knowledge here is this forum…

But let me give you a hint for your posting:  
If you want to post a screendump in this forum, please enclose it in code tags. It looks like this:

```auto
[code]This is my code or screendump.
      Here no leading or multiple spaces are shortened[/code]
```

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**Author:** ![Douglas\_Kelly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/douglas_kelly/32/102_2.png) [@Douglas\_Kelly](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Douglas_Kelly)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/delimiter-option-in-map-editor-in-unix-platform/60836/5 "2006-04-20T01:16:26Z")

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The delimiters are relevant on the mainframe because you don’t have a GUI mapping tool there, so the delimiters provide a shorthand convention for associating attributes with the field. They are not needed in the Windows/Unix GUI environments.

Why are you looking for the delimiters? If you want to change the field’s attributes, right-click and select “Definition” or “Colors”. To change a bunch of fields, use shift-click to select the group of fields (convention may be somewhat different on Unix, but there should be some multiple-selection option) and set the colors or whatever.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/delimiter-option-in-map-editor-in-unix-platform/60836/6 "2021-04-02T14:40:35Z")

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