RE: 5250 Start Field Funny Stuff

[Tim McCarthy <timm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually what you have here is an SF order followed by the two byte
Field Format Word - it looks to me to be setting: no bypass, no dup, MDT
off, alpha shift. 


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Svalgaard [SMTP:leif@leif.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 1:21 PM
> To:   List Midrange
> Subject:      5250 Start Field Funny Stuff
> 
> Any of you 5250-gurus out there (still any alive?):
> I get a data stream (from SEU) that contains (among other stuff) 
> these hexadecimal byte values:
> 
> 11 14  06       1D 40 00 81 00 24 00 99        11 16 01 
> 
> The 11s are SBAs (set buffer address) to 14,6 and 16,1,
> the 1D in the middle is a SF (start field), which normally should
> be followed by a 2-byte length and a 2-byte field format word.
> What I actually got (reproducible) does not make any sense
> (length of x'4000' ?)
> 
> What's going on here? 
> 
> Leif
> 
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