Conference jamin::pathworks32

297.0. "PowerTerm 525 does not work in NRC mode?" by STKHLM::IVAN () Thu May 15 1997 10:58

    A customer here in Sweden needs to use the PW32 PowerTerm 525 emulator 
    with Swedish NRC application on OVMS host. He claims that the emulator 
    does not work with NRC.

    I have tested the emulator in-house and I am afraid the customer is 
    right. 

    A terminal or emulator in NRC mode should do three thinks:

    1. The eight bit of the characters received should always be treated as 
       zero.

    2. A country replacement table, corresponding to the keyboard dialect
       in use, should be activated.

    3. When receiving an ASCII code, corresponding to a character from the
       country-specific replacement table (for example the ASCII code for
       "]" ), the character, displayed on the screen, should be not the US
       character, but the one, included in the country-specific replacement
       table (in case that Swedish keyboard dialekt is aktive, instead of 
       the US "]" character, the Swedish "�" character should be displayed).

    PowerTerm 525 4.00.32 on US W95 with Swedish keyboard language configur-
    ed in W95 (there is no keyboard dialect choise in the emulator Setup), 
    configuted to use 7 bits Swedish NRC, masks the 8-th bit in the charac-
    ters, but does not perform any character replacement.

    The PW32 VT320 emulator works in NRC mode as it should work.

    I wonder if we here are doing something wrong or we do have a serious 
    emulation problem in Powerterm 525?

    Thanks for any suggestions,

    Ivan Ivanov,
    MCS, Sweden
    
                                                                  

    I wonder if somebody at Engineering has tried to reproduce the problem?
    Should we open IPMT directly, without any discussion or suggestion?
    
    Best regards,
    
    Ivan

If you expect a fix... IPMT it, if you excect a work around, keep waiting
until someone with time reads the note, and ... has the time to test it
figure out what is wrong, and post a work around if possible.  This is NOT
an offical support channel.

All requests for FIXES must be IPMT'd, unless someone has already noted
that they have submitted a IPMT.

Jeff