| .0> An ALL-IN-1 user creates a document using WPS+ which contains
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.0> 1) vertical line ("|"), underline ("_")
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.0> 2) characters via technical character set (Greek alpha,
.0> beta etc.)
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.0> 3) characters via 2D editor (vertical line, underline)
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.0> How are the characters displayed on MEMO terminals?
1) "|" and "_" are no special WPS-PLUS characters.
"|" is translated to EBCDIC value 6A (hex) and "_" to 6D. In
the Swedish and German National Replacement Character Sets, "|" is
"�", so on the way from MEMO, 6A is translated to F6 (the 8-bit
"�").
2) We have not made any detailed investigation of how each technical
character in WPS-PLUS is converted by the conversion routines we use
(DCF). DCF is a quite old and large conversion package. We haven't
find anything better to use.
DCF tries to convert the WPS-PLUS text to an ASCII document that looks
as good as possible. Alpha and beta, for example, are converted to 'a'
and 'b', respectively.
If you want to have specific information about how certain characters,
are converted, you'll have to try it out. By using ALL-IN-1 to convert
your WPS-PLUS documents to ASCII, you can find out how the converted text
looks whithout having to use MRMEMO.
There is, however, no guarantee that ALL-IN-1 of today does the
conversion in exactly the same way as DCF (that is based on some
ancient version of ALL-IN-1).
3) A converted 2D box looks like this after conversion:
+-----------+
| |
| |
+-----------+
What graphic presentation the "MEMO terminals" decide to do of the
EBCDIC character values is beyond our control. There is no single
EBCDIC standard (in the same way as there are lots of different
ASCII national replacement character sets).
If the translation tables in the MRMEMO kit are not satisfactory, you
can make your own. The tools and documentation about this is included
in the SNA Gateway kits.
Anders
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