RE: Vertical bar translation

["Jones, John (US)" <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob -

To see the hex (ASCII) codes on the PC:

- Save the file somewhere.
- Start a command prompt.
- Change to the directory where the file is.
- Enter
  debug filename.txt
- You'll get a "-" prompt.
- Enter 
  d
  (for Dump)
- The 1st 128 bytes of the file will be displayed.  Note on the left
side the indicator xxxx:0100 through xxxx:0170; that's the offset into
the file.  The middle portion of the dump is the hex/ASCII codes for the
characters.  The right side contains the ASCII characters themselves.
- Enter 
  d180
  to do a dump starting at position xxxx:0180
- etc.
- When done, enter
  q
  (to Quit)

Amazingly, Debug is still available on Windows XP.  I just tried it.

But if you want a better way of looking at hex/ASCII or you actually
want to edit it, go grab UltraEdit (http://www.ultraedit.com) or some
other better-than-notepad editor.

-----Original Message-----
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:39 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Vertical bar translation


I have a file in a library.  The CCSID of this file, (from DSPFD) is 
65535.
I use the following command on this file:
CPYTOSTMF  +
                          FROMMBR('/qsys.lib/ediftpdta.lib/gxsftpun.f+
                          ile/gxsftpun.mbr') +
                          TOSTMF('/ediftpdta/edioutifs') +
                          STMFOPT(*REPLACE) STMFCODPAG(*STMF) +
                          ENDLINFMT(*CRLF)
Then I use FTP in the standard ASCII method to move this file to another

platform.

Problem:  Hex CA is a vertical bar.  On my keyboard it's the cap's mode
of 
the backslash just above the Enter key.
If I ftp this down to my PC and use either Notepad or Wordpad it looks 
great - a vertical bar.
However if I use TYPE thefilename from DOS it looks like a superscripted

underlined capital Q.
I don't know how to use these utilities to display the ascii code of the

data.

Why this is important.
Our customer is rather fond of this vertical bar.  And whatever platform

they are using comes up with (I've been told anyway) an ampersand.

Is there some trick I have to do such as:
- Changing the CCSID of the physical file that is the source of the 
CPYTOSTMF to some magic number?
- Having a preexisting IFS file with just the right CCSID?
- Changing the STMFCODPAG option to some number?



Rob Berendt
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