RE: What's that character?

[Colin Williams <colin.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rick, 

One I use that is quite good is XVI32, I believe it freeware or shareware

Cheers
Colin.W

-----Original Message-----
From: James Rich [mailto:james@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 27 January 2004 16:52
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Cc: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: What's that character?


On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 rick.baird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> While i was looking through the file, I was cutting and pasting 
> several lines into another text file to illustrate the problems to 
> them, and I came across a character that stopped the paste - for 
> instance, I copied 5 lines, but could only paste 2 1/2 lines, and it 
> stopped at this particular character.  I'm sure that this will give 
> fits to the CPYFRMSTMF or CPYFRMIMPF commands too, though I haven't 
> tried.
>
> My question is, how can I find out what ascii char this is, and why it 
> can't be copy/pasted?  If someone wants to actually see the file, I 
> can send it to them offline.

You could use a tool such as ghex to look at the file in hexadecimal.  I can
do that for you if you don't have such a tool available.

James Rich

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