Re: assertion fails on DSPF

[Mike Madore <mmadore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the info.  This is part of a more general problem where we
don't handle non-display characters correctly.  I need to come up with a
more generic approach.  Will put this on my to-do list.

Mike

On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 stevefx@us.ibm.com wrote:

> I am having problems with an assertion failing when DSPF is used on a
> OS/400 development release, it blows up right away. I contacted the owner
> of the DSPF command to see what had changed, and below is his response.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Steve,
> 
> I think I figured what is causing your emulator to fail.  From the trace
> file it looks like the emulator dies when it tries to read EBCDIC codepoint
> 0x09.  This character is the result of one of the changes that was made to
> DSPF/EDTF.  The program is designed to take all characters less than 0x40
> and replace them with a 0x09 for the purpose of being displayed to the
> screen.  There is a control character at the end of the each file name, in
> this case "/dev/qsh-stdin-null", that is being replace with a 0x09.
> Previously the value was 0x16, but we were having problems with the
> character being displayed so we changed it to 0x09.  It looks like the
> emulator doesn't know how to handle codepoint 0x09.  Hopefully, this is
> helpful.  If you have any more questions let me know.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Steve Fox
> http://w3.rchland.ibm.com/~sjfox (IBM Intranet)
> http://k-lug.com (Rochester Linux Users Group)
> 
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