RE: [MI400] Crtmicmp

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

Never mind... I get it. By using <alt-hex> one can determine what the specific 
device is displaying as the character.

Tom Liotta

qsrvbas@netscape.net (Tom Liotta) wrote:

>Just for my own understanding, isn't it problematic trying to view such 
>characters on a terminal (or printer or emulator or...)? I wouldn't think it 
>had so much to do with "AS/400" or "5250" as it has to do with the specific 
>character set being used by the specific device. Move over to a device on the 
>next desk and view the same data via STRCPYSCN and you can easily see 
>different characters for the same hex values.
>
>No?
>
>Tom Liotta
>
>s.leon@isys.ch (Stephane Leon) wrote:
>
>>> no need to find "real" terminal. DSPPFM and then F10 will
>>> also show you the hexadecimal values. What happens
>>> is that CA (or FTP) takes the original |, translates that to !
>>> then when showing the result takes ! and translates it back
>>> into a |. Whomever was responsible for that should turn
>>> over in his grave.
>>
>>Ok, but 'pipe' here in switzerland is x'BB' and i just need a
>>''real'' terminal to type 'alt hexa' 4F to see what char is.
>>i see '!' and replace | by ! and go.
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