RE: Print Char w/ No EBCDIC Hex Code

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Non printable character will show up as either nothing or "green blocks" on
the screen. And depending on the print driver, they'll show up as a black
block on the printer too. There is a character that will produce the block
but I don't recall the Hex code for it.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@midrange.com]
On Behalf Of Michael Naughton
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 3:43 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Print Char w/ No EBCDIC Hex Code


One of my users has asked me if there is a way to embed a special symbol in
a text string -- in other words, he wants to have a text string (in a normal
AS/400 PF record) that contains something like "#  25 x 45 #", only each "#"
would show up as a solid bar or some other image that doesn't have an EBCDIC
hex code. Of course, he'd also like it show on the screen that way :-), but
that is not so important. Most likely, we'd be printing on some sort of
laser printer connected to the AS/400 over our network. Also, I think we'd
always be able to scan the string for substitution characters (if that were
the way to make this work) and replace them with the graphic when we were
printing.

I suspect the short answer is, "no", but before closing the book on this I
thought I'd ask around and see if anyone has any ideas. . . .

Thanks!

Mike Naughton
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Judd Wire, Inc.
124 Turnpike Road
Turners Falls, MA  01376
413-863-4357 x444
mnaughton@juddwire.com

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