RE: Printing a box (was EBCDC Codes needed.)

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kobie wrote:

>First time contributing to the mailing list.

Welcome!

>I need to write a program that draws a block 
>(dinamic) around some text. I don't want to 
>make use of "+' for the corners. Does anybode 
>know where to find EBCDC Codes for the corners, 
>eg. Eval    Char = X'??', or a better way to do it ?

The better way would be to use AFP.  Check out the DDS keyword BOX.
EBCDIC doesn't have drawing characters like ASCII (at least not in code page
437)  IBM uses period and colon for their plain text displays - see SEU F21
for an example.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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