In assembler you could handle the address, then UNPK 5 bytes into 9,
translate the FA-FF in the 8 bytes and blank the 9th.  Increment by 4
and repeat to fill line, and repeat to process address range.
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 1:15 PM Farley, Peter x23353
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It's Friday, so how about an off-the-wall question I have always wondered 
> about.
>
> I think the answer to my question is "no", but I thought it worth asking 
> anyway.
>
> Standard system storage dumps (SYSUDUMP, SNAP/SNAPX, etc.) format storage 
> displays like this in a 121-character line:
>
> 36B219C0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000    00000000 00000000 00000000 
> 00000000   *................................*
>
> Obviously there are many ways to produce such a line in your language of 
> choice, but is there any available interface to the system routines that 
> display storage in this format?  Not the I/O to print them or send them to a 
> file, just the "storage dump formatting into a print line" part.
>
> I am of course assuming that the storage formatting routine has been rendered 
> in some common-code subroutine used by all (or some of) the "dumping" 
> routines, which may or may not be a fact.
>
> TIA for your answer even it (as I strongly suspect) the answer is "no".
>
> Peter
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