Re: [LINUX5250] Displayable chars in tn5250 & x5250

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Dave McKenzie wrote:

> Below is an AS/400 display file and pgm that puts up a table of all
> displayable chars and all attribute bytes (best viewed with a fixed font).

Thank you very much!  I will add this to my test program that I use.  I'm
putting together something that will test all the 5250 features including
windows, all attributes, all function keys, 80 and 132 columns, and
anything else I can think of.  This will really help with testing.

> BTW, x5250 displays it perfectly, except that it doesn't show the 3
> chars less than x40: x1C, which is the char that dumb terminals display
> when you press the dup key (looks like an asterisk with a line over it),
> x1E which is a high line, and x1F, a solid rectangle.  I presume that's
> because the font used doesn't have those chars (but who cares, really?).

Actually, I was surprised to see how many characters are in the font.  I
don't remember coming across the "dup" character, but the other two seem
familiar.  In fact, a fun experiment on old versions of x5250 (pre 0.0.4)
was to hold down control and start hitting other keys.  That would often
generate key syms that corresponded to interesting characters.  Anyway,
I'll look to see what characters I can use for those you mention.

Thanks for doing this!

James Rich

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