Re: Sending a Caret ^ to PC Printer

["Roger Harman" <RHarman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been kicking around the WSCST idea and had already retrieved the
source.  That task had next week written all over it though ;-)

Interestingly, the default EBCDIC->ASCII translation table converts the
"not" to the caret (in hex at least) but it appears to be coming through
untouched - almost as if in a pass-thru mode.

However... I just tried the copy/paste of a literal caret and it worked
fine (x'B0' if you're interested).  

Thanks.  That'll make for a more relaxed weekend.


> > > midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 02/27/2009 4:20:51 PM >>>
Hi Roger,

Once you've looked up the correct MFRTYPMDL on IBM's "galactic" (heh) 
printer database, I'd suggest tunning the following (use your own
values 
for the stuff I put in lowercase)

    RTVWSCST DEVTYPE(*TRANSFORM) MFRTYPMDL(*whatever)
             SRCFILE(foo/QTXTSRC) SRCMBR(bar)

The output source member will tell you what that particular transform
is 
  actually doing.  It should be possible to insert code into that
source 
that will control how the translation takes place (I don't remember the

specifics, though, unfortunately -- you'll have to look it up in the 
manual).   But you should be able to insert something that transforms
to 
whatever character you want...

Alternately, you could try sending the actual caret symbol ^ from the 
'400 instead of sending the "logical not".  Although that character 
doesn't exist on a 5250 keyboard, it DOES exist in EBCDIC, and you 
should be able to use it.  (You may have to copy/paste the character 
from a PC program since the emulator might have it mapped to a diff
key)

Just a few ideas...

Roger Harman wrote:
> I'm moving an application from a twinax-controlled parallel printer
> (with external interface) to a parallel connect using Client Access. 

> The printer wants a caret to bracket some data and I've always used
the
> logical not (x5F) which translates to ASCII x5E - the caret.  The
> printer, however, is seeing xAA which, visually, appears to be the
> logical not.  It works fine on the twinax devd version which is a
5224
> type.
>
> I've tried various  MFRTYPMDL parameters but no luck.  On the PC,
it's
> a Generic/Text Only config but I've tried Epson FX850 also.
>
> Thought I might need to specify a PDT on the Printer Setup (as
> suggested also on the IBM printer galactic database) but the PDT box
is
> grayed out.
>
> Any suggestions?  Thanks.