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Conference virke::mrmemo

Title:	VAX MAILGATE for MEMO

Moderator:	STKHLM::OLSSON

Created:	Sat Feb 25 1989
Last Modified:	Tue May 14 1996
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	216
Total number of notes:	933

164.0. "Pound and Dollar sign problems..." by YUPPY::CARTER (Windows on the world...) Thu Feb 25 1993 13:10

    Hi
    
    We are having a minor, but frustrating problem when sending mail from
    Teamlinks (DEC MailWorks) to MEMO.
    
    From MEMO to Teamlinks:
    
         
    pound sign converts to dollar sign
    dollar sign converts to [
    
    From Teamlinks to MEMO:
    
    pound sign converts to blank
    dollar sign converts to pound sign
    
    
    Any ideas?
    
    
    Xtine

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164.1 Make your own translation table STKHLM::OLSSON Anders Olsson, SIP Sweden Thu Feb 25 1993 18:02 25

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164.1	Make your own translation table	STKHLM::OLSSON	Anders Olsson, SIP Sweden	`Thu Feb 25 1993 18:02`	25
	MRMEMO doesn't define directly how translation between ASCII and EBCDIC is done. The MRMMAN command DEFINE /TRANSLATION_TABLE is used to specify a translation table to use. It is then the contents of the translation table file that defines the conversion rules. The translation table file is not created or maintained by any component of MRMEMO. The translation table format is owned by the SNA Gateway people and is the same type of file that is used e.g. by the VMS 3270 Terminal Emulator (SET HOST/SNA/CHARACTER_SET=file-spec). Have you tried to use the SNA terminal emulator with the same translation table as your MRMEMO uses? If you do, I'd expect some problems with the characters you mentioned. In the same way as there are different national ASCII character sets, there are various EBCDIC character sets, so you can't make a single translation table that works perfectly in all environments. Therefore, there is a documented way to make your own table. For instructions about how to make your own translation table, see the manual "DECnet/SNA Gateway-CT and Gateway-ST Management (VMS)", appendix A - "EBCDIC/DMCS Translation Tables". Anders

    
MRMEMO doesn't define directly how translation between ASCII and EBCDIC
is done. The MRMMAN command DEFINE /TRANSLATION_TABLE is used to specify
a translation table to use. It is then the contents of the translation
table file that defines the conversion rules. 

The translation table file is *not* created or maintained by any
component of MRMEMO. The translation table format is owned by the SNA
Gateway people and is the same type of file that is used e.g. by the
VMS 3270 Terminal Emulator (SET HOST/SNA/CHARACTER_SET=file-spec).

Have you tried to use the SNA terminal emulator with the same
translation table as your MRMEMO uses? If you do, I'd expect some
problems with the characters you mentioned. 

In the same way as there are different national ASCII character sets,
there are various EBCDIC character sets, so you can't make a single
translation table that works perfectly in all environments. Therefore,
there is a documented way to make your own table.

For instructions about how to make your own translation table, see the
manual "DECnet/SNA Gateway-CT and Gateway-ST Management (VMS)", appendix
A - "EBCDIC/DMCS Translation Tables". 

Anders