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- From: rjohns@brtph46.BNR.CA (Richard Johns P205)
- Subject: Re: Bad escape codes on 9000/720?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.161011.17261@brtph560.bnr.ca>
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- Reply-To: rjohns@brtph46.BNR.CA (Richard Johns P205)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
- References: <1993Jan5.170026.16862@brtph560.bnr.ca> <31480308@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:10:11 GMT
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- In article <31480308@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com>, dhandly@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com
- (Dennis Handly) writes:
- |> >/ rjohns@brtph46.BNR.CA (Richard Johns P205) / 10:54 am Jan 8, 1993 /
- |> >Since the only example in the Pascal Programmer's Guide that shows how to
- |> >report escapecodes *is* a case statement, I feared the worst!
- |>
- |> Using a CASE statement was simpler to document and understand.
-
- Well, yeah, but leaving out crucial information doesn't help me understand
- how to actually use escape codes. Anyone could figure out how to use a case
- statement to report escape codes, so why show us that and make us go casting
- about for the real answer?
-
- |> >This isn't documented anywhere in the Pascal manuals.
- |>
- |> I didn't say that the message set stuff was in the manual, I just printed
- |> out the ascii source to the message catalog and the comments indicate
- |> the message set. The name of this file is in the man page.
-
- Which is the only reason I knew to ask about the message catalog file at all,
- and since there's no clue in any of the HP-UX documentation as to how to find
- the message set, you ought to put it in the paserrs file or in the Programmer's
- Guide or SOMETHING. Just so you can tell us poor users to RTFM!
-
- |> >No, actually, the escapecode section only mentions file PASESC.PUB.SYS on
- |> >MPE/iX. Please add a pointer to pasesc.ph!
- |>
- |> You must have an old manual. Throw it away and get the version for Aug
- |> 1992. :-) Manufacturing Part No. 92431-90014
- |> That filename should also be in the old man page.
-
- Oh, no -- I got this manual in October. It's 92431-9006. Time to talk to the
- sales rep, I guess.
-
- |> >Again, no, but it would help. It would only take a paragraph to
- explain the
- |> >connection to the error catalog and how decipher the escapecode.
- There's a
- |> >whole chapter for Error Recovery and Debugging; why not explain it all?
- |>
- |> We have filed SR 4701-172148 on the PG to document how to decode
- |> escapecodes. And it will give you a nice picture of the two fields.
-
- Thanks.
-
-
- Cheers,
- Rick Johns
- BNR
- rjohns@bnr.ca
-
- Disclaimer: I said it, BNR didn't.
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