Re: LF translation in QSH

[Jason Abreu <jason.abreu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was using ASCII control characters as an example.  Windows text 
editors typically look for the combination of CR and LF characters to 
break a new line, whereas many Unix environments will recognize just the 
LF character.
Try to insert both characters into your print stream and see how the 
Windows text editor handles it.

Jason Abreu
Abreu Innovations, Inc.
jason.abreu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.abreuinnovations.com/

On 3/9/2011 3:41 PM, Mark S. Waterbury wrote:
> Oh, wow ... I thought this was going to be about Logical Files ... *:-/*
>
>  > On 3/9/2011 3:32 PM, Dennis wrote:
> > I thought I had solved this problem ages ago... Here goes.
> >
> > I have an ILE C program that I run from QSH via soft-link created a la:
> > ln -fs /qsys.lib/mylib.lib/mypgm.pgm /home/thisguy/bin/myprogram
> >
> > Program looks like this:
> > #include<stdio.h>
> > int main(int argc, char **argv) {
> > printf("Hello, world.\n") ;
> > printf("Hello, world.\n") ;
> > printf("You still here?\n!) ;
> > return 0 ;
> > }
> >
> > (Exciting, I know.)
> >
> > I can run this, and the output looks fine. I can also pipe my output
> > to a file (myprogram> /tmp/myfile.txt) and when I cat /tmp/myfile.txt,
> > everything looks fine.
> >
> > But it is not. The "new line" character has been translated to 0x85
> > (or x'85' if you prefer). Job CCSID is 37. Shell created the file as
> > CCSID 819. WRKENVVAR shows QIBM_CCSID = 819.
> >
> > The reason I noticed this is that I sent a file like this to a Windows
> > system using ASCII mode, and the Windows system shows no LF (of
> > course), and instead views it as one streamed line.
> >
> > What would be the appropriate CCSID for me to use for such an
> > operation? Following on to that, should I (not) be able to specify one
> > CCSID for most purposes and be done with it (assuming I'm only using
> > IBM i, Windows and Linux systems in US English)? Or is CCSID even the
> > problem?!?! Maybe I should be using something other than "...\n" in my
> > printf() ?
> >
> > --
> > Sent from my Galaxy tablet phone with with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my
> > brevity.