RE: Message text formatting

Walden,

 OS/400 knows what to do when displaying the message.  That means that IBM
has written a formatting routine.  My question is if this routine is
available to us.  I would like to display it in the same format IBM does.  

 But in this case I can't use a message subfile and make the user move the
cursor to the msg and press F1, in order for me to take advantage of the
built-in "message displayer."

 -mark

Original Message:
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From: Walden H. Leverich WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 09:28:20 -0400
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Message text formatting


>I'm referring to the paragraph formatting characters, 

The "right" thing to do with those characters depends on where you're
displaying the output. Since 5250 is block-based not character-based
there isn't really a concept of Carriage Return/Line Feed (CRLF). The
DSPMSG command "knows" to start a new line when it sees &N and indent it
w/&P, etc. If you want to display your own message you need to handle
that yourself. 

-Walden

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