Re: Display file attributes

["Steve Landess" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug -

Back on the System/38, I often used the test mode switch on the old dumb
tubes to look at screen attributes, and until IBM eliminated it, you could
get a table on the screen showing a list of _all_ of the EBCDIC characters
with their corresponding hex values by calling program QARDRIVE.

Nowadays you can use the STRCPYSCN and send the output to a file.

The hex attribute value will show up in front of each field in the outfile.

Regards,
Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Handy" <>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: Display file attributes


> James,
>
> > I don't know if this is useful to you, but x5250 can be compiled to put
an
> > '@' on the screen everytime it encounters a display attribute.  This way
> > you could check to see if the attribute is there or not.
>
> There are times I found the old Test Mode switch on the front of the
> 5251-11 useful, as it would give the exact hex contents of each
> attribute byte plus show the difference betweeen blanks and nulls.
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