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TRANSLATING INCOMING/OUTGOING CHARACTERS
Sometimes it is necessary for certain incoming or outgoing
characters to be changed to another value or stripped alto-
gether. For this purpose, Telix keeps in memory and incoming
and an outgoing character 'translate table'. For every charac-
ter in the ASCII set, the table defines what it should be
changed to. By default, no character translation is performed,
as for each character, the new value is defined to be the same
as the old one. The translate table facility is entered by
pressing Alt-W while in terminal mode. Telix will ask whether
you want to work with the incoming or outgoing table, and then
display the translate table screen with the following menu at
the bottom:
Load Clear Save Edit Other eXit
Most of the screen is used to display translation values. Each
column holds on the left the original character (ASCII value),
and on the right the new character. Only half the ASCII set
can be displayed on one screen. Select the 'Other' option to
toggle the display to show the other half of the character
set.
The 'Load' option is used to load a previously saved translate
table definition file. Telix will ask for the filename, in-
cluding extension.
The 'Clear' option is used to reset all values in the trans-
late table in memory, so that no translation is performed.
The 'Save' option is used to save the current translate table
definition to a disk file. Telix will ask for the file name to
save the table to. You must include the extension if needed (a
common extension for this purpose is '.XLT").
The 'Edit' option is used to actually edit the translate
table. Telix will ask for the old ASCII value, and the new
one. If the new value of a character is defined as 0, that
character is completely striped.
It is sometimes useful to have an incoming and/or outgoing
translate table load automatically when Telix is run. If the
file TELIXIN.XLT exists at Telix start-up, it is assumed to be
a default incoming character translate table, and is loaded
into that slot. Similarly, if the file TELIXOUT.XLT exists at
start-up, it is assumed to be the default outgoing translate
table, and loaded.
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