Code page 437 has the box drawing characters, but the code points don't match; BF, C0, D9 and DA are single line corners while BB, BC, C8 and C9 are double line corners.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Mike Schwab [mike.a.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 7:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SuperWylbur Users I remember the early IBM PC having those box drawing characters in its character sets. It had graphics instead of international hyphenated characters. On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 11:33 PM Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 14:38, Farley, Peter x23353 > <peter.far...@broadridge.com> wrote: > > > > Do you know of a specific program or macro in the package that exhibits > > this failure? Or have a link to any public discussion of the issue that > > describes the mis-translations? > > > > I DL'd the tgz file directly from Stanford and browsed a few sources at > > random, but I didn't see any "weird" characters. One of the mail-related > > scripts I reviewed seemed to have legitimate square bracket pairs, so maybe > > it isn't that particular issue? > > I did much the same, and noticed that in the listing files there seems > to have been some post processing done to (among other things) > generate text boxes For example, in > Mainframe\GS.MIL\MILTEN.SOURCE\MSVC there is a line starting with *box > which in the matching listing Assemblies\Milten\MIL#MSVC.txt generates > a box made mostly of X'FE' for the horizontal lines, 9F for the > vertical, and the four corners are BF, DC, BE, and BB. This is neither > ASCII nor EBCDIC in any dialect I recognize, but all the box > characters have been uniquely translated, so that may well also be > true for any unusual characters in the actual source lines. > > I doubt that the long-standing claim that the Wylbur source is trashed > is completely invented, but things certainly *look* salvageable at > first glance. > > Tony H. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
