Re: Happy Holidays

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim !

That is PRETTY cool !! I've done a lot of "predefined" messages and always
wondered what the logic was when it came to the wrapping !

May God bless you and yours this holiday season !

Chuck

Jim Langston wrote:

> I wrote a quick little CL on my system, called HOLIDAYMSG.
>
> It takes a parameter of type char length 10.
>
> If that parm is 'CHRISTMAS ' it sends a message to *ALLACT
> which is a character representation of a christmas tree and a
> gift with the message HAPPY HOLIDAYS.
>
> Now, why am I saying this?  I found the easiest way to draw
> ASCII art on the AS/400 in a SNDMSG is to do the SNDMSG,
> hit F4 and "draw" the picture in the message part.  When you got
> it looking the way you want it to, go to each line and delete 7
> characters.  The reason for this is there is an empty border around
> messages when displayed that makes the displayed text 7 characters
> less than the SNDMSG MSG parameter.
>
> When doing this I first sent it to myself to make sure it looked
> right before I sent to *ALLACT.
>
> Happy Holidays and
> God Bless us every one,
>
> Jim Langston
>
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