Re: Sending E-mail

[Patrick Townsend <townsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,

Thanks for correcting me on the CR/LF issue! 

John, I'm attaching a translation table I use as an alternative to the
IBM QASCII table. You can create the table using the CRTTBL command. I
believe it corrects the line feed problem and a couple of other
character translation problems (perhaps the exclamation point and
something else ???). The usual disclaimers apply: use at your own risk! 

Patrick

Tim McCarthy wrote:
> 
> At 09:05 AM 6/9/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >John,
> >
> 
> >One word of caution - I think there is a problem with the IBM-supplied
> >QASCII translation table with regard to the CR character. It has to end
> >up as hex 0D in ASCII, but I think doesn't do this the way you would
> >expect. You might need to use your own table. Let me know if you would
> >like some source for an EBCDIC to ASCII translation table. I'm reaching
> >back in my memory (which is unreliable at best), but I think I used
> >EBCDIC hex 25 instead of 15.
> >
> Actually it's the line feed character you need to watch for because QASCII
> and QEBCDIC are not reversable. Ascii x'0A' = Ebcdic x'15' but not the
> other way around, you have to use x'25'. You should change the translation
> table not the data (if you're working in C) 'cause AS/400 C functions like
> 'gets' will only recogize x'15' as newline.
> 
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