Elardus >> Probably we should have the name of the list changed from IBM-MAIN to JAGS-MAIN!
> :-D There was a loooong running thread some months ago which revolved about a very respected IBM-MAIM member and shadowed all and every other topics. ;-D The idea prompted more by the quick fire variety of topics than the range of any one particular topic. > Uhm, what logmode of that display was used? I would like to repeat your stunt. Also what 3270 attributes (Extended Attributes, Vector Graphics, Programmed Symbols, Translation Table, etc.) are needed? This trick has nothing whatsoever at all to do with the content of mode tables or any alteration of the "standard environment". This is purely a matter of support for characters in the 3270 data stream implementation. Casting my mind back, I think the old 3279 may have imagined it was rendering a solid circle but it ended up the shape that requires skill to execute a "drop kick". On some 3270 implementations where I ran my little transaction the rendering was just a hopeless squiggle. In all of them the effect was maintained that your eye was drawn to the blinking shape - whatever it was - while you could very easily read the static text. You just need to put X'3F' into your data stream and make sure no busy-body programming which thinks it knows better does anything to mess with it. It may well be easiest to try it out with the BUFFER operand of an Unformatted System Services (the true USS) message. VTAM takes a possibly undesirable interest in the content of a message set up with the TEXT operand but has a completely "hands-off" approach to a message set up with the BUFFER operand. Note that, apart from USS message 10 (and 0, and 11, checking the book[1] - and 13) - USS messages are error messages and so deserve to contain arresting highlights. - [1] According to the Communications Server SNA Messages manual, USS stands for Unformatted *Session* Services - ho hum! - Chris Mason On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:07:27 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: >Chris Mason wrote: > >>Probably we should have the name of the list changed from IBM-MAIN to >JAGS-MAIN! > >:-D There was a loooong running thread some months ago which revolved >about a very respected IBM-MAIM member and shadowed all and every other >topics. ;-D > >[ ... lots snipped ... ] > >>- nobody could <many expletives deleted> actually manage to read the >messages unless they were prepared to rest their eyes in a dark room >afterwards and probably book an ophthalmologist's appointment. > >Your post is a nice sight for my sore eyes. ;-D > >>... with the NLDM messages, I replaced the blanks between the words, X'40', >with X'3F' and had these individual characters, in some 3270 display >implementations having the appearance of a football ... > >Uhm, what logmode of that display was used? I would like to repeat your >stunt. Also what 3270 attributes (Extended Attributes, Vector Graphics, >Programmed Symbols, Translation Table, etc.) are needed? > >Groete / Greetings >Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
