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Re: Display file attributes

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Douglas Handy wrote:

James,

I don't know if this is useful to you, but x5250 can be compiled to put an
'@' on the screen everytime it encounters a display attribute.  This way
you could check to see if the attribute is there or not.


There are times I found the old Test Mode switch on the front of the
5251-11 useful, as it would give the exact hex contents of each
attribute byte plus show the difference betweeen blanks and nulls.

That sounds like a useful addition. How did it fit the hex contents in one character position on the screen? In x5250 I could create a special character that would map to certain hex codes, but that doesn't seem like what you're describing the 5251-11 did. I could make each attribute clickable which would pop up a little window describing what attributes are there. Kind of cool...

James Rich

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