Re: Viewing 5250 attribute bytes

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick

What I've done is get the PF down to my PC using FTP or whatever - 
converted to ASCII in the process. Or you could maybe use CPY on the 
i5 - trevor should be proud of me - and put it on the IFS for your PC to read.

Now once it's in ASCII, the codes, like x'20' for normal and x'34' 
for some color or other will probably be changed to some ASCII 
equivalent - i've not looked into making my own translation table or anything.

What I've done is create a macro that finds the attribute bytes and 
the matching pairs - like high-intensity followed by some text then 
the normal byte - I take the text in between, set it to Bold, and 
replace the attributes with blanks.

Etc. - something like that. In order to figure out what bytes do 
what, I have gone to some display programming manual, I think - or I 
use a DSPF with all the possibilities in it, then capture IT and send 
it to the PC. Once this is done, you are good to go from then on.

You get to deal with colors and high intensity and reverse image and 
underline and all that - even non-display - I don't think column 
separators have attribute bytes - that's a setting for the whole 
display, it seems.

HTH
Good luck
Vern

At 03:02 PM 6/13/2007, you wrote:

> Hi Vern,
>
> I am used to working with STRCPYSCN, but have never saved them to a file.
>
> I have done that now, but how do you get the data in a PF to a Word
> document?
>
> It looks pretty interesting.
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>
>
> Thanx,
>
> Nick
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> Maybe an interesting alternative is to use STRCPYSCN and have it write
> each screen to a PF - the attribute bytes are included. I've played some
> with using this output to get nice screen captures in Word - with correct
> underlines and colors and all that.
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> Vern
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> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: "Douglas Handy" <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> > Steve,
> >
> > With all due respects to Doug I think the cure is worse than the
> > > affliction. [smile] Flipping a little switch might have been (in
> > > retrospect) the most UN-dumb way of having the feature available.
> >
> >
> > Oh, I am well aware of the advantages of the old 5251 attribute switch,
> or
> > keyboard method in many newer terminals. I missed having the feature
> > available, which is why I wrote my DspDspAtr attention handling program.
> I
> > don't consider it as nice as a hardware switch, but I think it beats
> having
> > nothing at all available. I also miss having each attribute byte's hex
> > value immediately viewable when you toggle the switch, but the best I
> could
> > come up with is a method to instantly see where the attribute bytes are
> at
> > then request the hex value of any given attribute.
> >
> > It had been so long since I used this though that I had actually
> forgotten
> > about it. That's another advantage of the hardware switch...
> >
> > I use to mess with user defined streams and I'll probably spend a little
>
> > > time with Doug's code because the subject is interesting. That stuff
> > > doesn't normally come together nicely and I can imagine that Doug had
> > > fun getting the code to where it worked. Well put together.
> >
> >
> > It wasn't hard at all, since I was pretty familiar with the 5250 data
> stream
> > and what you can do with it. I used to output 5250 data streams directly
>
> > from RPG II on the S/34 as learning exercises (never in production
> code).
> > DSM just makes it alot easier to implement some of this stuff. You can
> do
> > some neat things fairly easy with DSM, and this is a case in point.
> >
> > Doug
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