Elardus, Wow, 3800 printers, I remember they forms and then you could over or insert you text data , e to into the form for printing..worked the awhile ago..10+ yrs my friend
Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Apr 30, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >> In the wider perspective, ASA carriage control was originally a form of >> presentational markup targeted at a class of output devices, impact >> printers, then preponderant, now dwindling. > > Markup, yes, this is the correct word in these times of markup languages. The > ASA cc was indeed a type of markup where you say, put text here, start new > page there, overwrite a line there and there. It reminds me of the type of > first column (AFAIK) where you tell the 3800 laser printer to use this or > that font on this or that line. > > Any greybeards remembering this 3800 toy? ;-D > >> It would be chaotic to produce an instance of each report for each class of >> output device (printer, 3278, GUI display, etc.) Semantic markup is the >> necessary answer. It would likewise be chaotic to undertake conversion of >> each report generator to generate reports with semantic markup. A likely >> better place to do this is in a SYSOUT writer that filters ASA carriage >> control to a semantic markup language such as HTML, or perhaps XML. > > Agreed 100%. Is there such software [1] ? I'm aware of XML on /zOS, but can > you use it on a SYSOUT? > >> And it might be unreasonable to expect such a filter to generate proper >> markup for intended tabular material in reports. (Does XMITIP, for example, >> to this?) > > Interesting question! Thanks, I wonder what answer you will get? > > Thanks Paul for your kind comments. It is much appreciated! > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > [1] - It seemed to me that LRS/DRS can do this, but then, there is no actual > printing in this case. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
