Re: Sending E-mail -- MIDRANGE-L

Patrick & Tim - thanks for the info

MIME headers are not a problem - I am used to using them from the unix
side.  I have all that setup in my C source.  What was confusing me is
that I thought I had read that you could use the *sysifo option on the
compiler and the "w" for output to get the system to automatically
translate when you wrote to the IFS.  What is really confusing me is
that I actually got this to work ONCE ! - Then I made the mistake of
cleaning up the code and polishing up the output!

Then it don't work no more.

So I guess I'll use the XLATE API - can't seem to get to the bookserver
pages right now to look it up.  The header in QSYSINC lists a bunch of
optional parameters but does not specify their data types.

Again thanks for all the help.

John Hall


Patrick Townsend wrote:
> 
> 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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