Re: Special characters

On 7/1/2013 7:04 PM, Rory Hewitt wrote:

James,

I tried using GDDM a while back with no luck. Do emulators like Client
Access support GDDM? Does yours?

Rory

GDDM-capable displays are rare beasts. On the AS/400 (yes, that old)
you'd need a 5292 model 2. I don't know of any currently available
emulators that will do that.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&context=SWG60&dc=DB520&dc=D900&dc=D800&dc=DA900&dc=DA800&q1=GDDM+AND+AS400KBXXYYZZRCH&uid=nas1a4fc1c7b2f6202d88625706000521abb&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=all

On the other hand, I did some very cool stuff in the 1980s with printed
GDDM graphics. I wonder how they'd look today on a laser printer
instead of a 5225 dot matrix printer...
--buck

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 3:38 PM, James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 7/1/13 3:24 PM, Rory Hewitt wrote:

Be aware that, as pointed out above, some of those codes < x'40' are
treated as 51250 data-stream control codes. Including them in your

screens

can cause the application to crash.

If you want to try it out (of course you do!), try displaying x'1D' -

use a

hex editor to add it to e.g. a record in a source file and then use

SEU...

Don't say I didn't warn you...

The range from x'20' through x'3F' is screen attributes.

x'1C' is an asterisk-with-overscore, produced by the "Duplicate" key on
a 5250 keyboard.

If I had the slightest idea how to directly access the "semigraphics"
characters availible on InfoWindow II terminals, for use with
mouse-aware display files, I'd probably be using them, and the emulator
I wrote would almost certainly support them, and support mouse-aware
display files much better than it does.

--
JHHL