Hi Steve,
Thanks for the info. This is part of a more general problem where we
don't handle non-display characters correctly. I need to come up with a
more generic approach. Will put this on my to-do list.
Mike
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am having problems with an assertion failing when DSPF is used on a
> OS/400 development release, it blows up right away. I contacted the owner
> of the DSPF command to see what had changed, and below is his response.
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Steve,
>
> I think I figured what is causing your emulator to fail. From the trace
> file it looks like the emulator dies when it tries to read EBCDIC codepoint
> 0x09. This character is the result of one of the changes that was made to
> DSPF/EDTF. The program is designed to take all characters less than 0x40
> and replace them with a 0x09 for the purpose of being displayed to the
> screen. There is a control character at the end of the each file name, in
> this case "/dev/qsh-stdin-null", that is being replace with a 0x09.
> Previously the value was 0x16, but we were having problems with the
> character being displayed so we changed it to 0x09. It looks like the
> emulator doesn't know how to handle codepoint 0x09. Hopefully, this is
> helpful. If you have any more questions let me know.
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>
> Steve Fox
> http://w3.rchland.ibm.com/~sjfox (IBM Intranet)
> http://k-lug.com (Rochester Linux Users Group)
>
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