Re: Display file attributes

Come to think of it, there have been many times where it would be nice to 
have some sort of ability in iSeries Access to perform the same function 
as the old test switch. I remember asking a developer to put that in about 
10 years ago.


Paul Nelson
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
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James,

 They was actually tiny characters (both digits), not usually available 
via
the normal 5250 character set.  But they only took up the space of the one
attribute byte.

 -mark

Original Message:
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From: James Rich james@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:14:02 -0700 (MST)
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Display file attributes


On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Douglas Handy wrote:

> James,
>
>> I don't know if this is useful to you, but x5250 can be compiled to put
an
>> '@' on the screen everytime it encounters a display attribute.  This 
way
>> you could check to see if the attribute is there or not.
>
> There are times I found the old Test Mode switch on the front of the
> 5251-11 useful, as it would give the exact hex contents of each
> attribute byte plus show the difference betweeen blanks and nulls.

That sounds like a useful addition.  How did it fit the hex contents in 
one character position on the screen?  In x5250 I could create a special 
character that would map to certain hex codes, but that doesn't seem like 
what you're describing the 5251-11 did.  I could make each attribute 
clickable which would pop up a little window describing what attributes 
are there.  Kind of cool...

James Rich

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