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And those two tiny characters might be a two and a zero stacked funny for 
hex(20).  I remember that and at times I miss it too.  I'll have to 
remember the suggestion about STRCPYSCN.

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> 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.

> Then James Rich wrote:
> 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 -

The attribute would show up as two tiny characters in the space
normally occupied by a single character on the 5250 display.

Steve

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