Re: Display file attributes

["mlazarus@xxxxxxxx" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

James,

 They was actually tiny characters (both digits), not usually available via
the normal 5250 character set.  But they only took up the space of the one
attribute byte.

 -mark

Original Message:
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From: James Rich james@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:14:02 -0700 (MST)
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 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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