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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Problem with editing a file. wrong charset?
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 11:03:38 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
- Lines: 25
- Message-ID: <1jokaaINNt5t@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <1993Jan19.180114.20315@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de>,<C15p1E.Bs0@micrognosis.co.uk>
- Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
- NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu
-
- In article <C15p1E.Bs0@micrognosis.co.uk>, nreadwin@micrognosis.co.uk (Neil Readwin) writes:
- =ORAKEL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Framstag) writes:
- =|> The logfile which is produced looks very wired (or at least I don't
- =|> know what it means. :-) ):
- =
- =A seemingly random selection of the characters have the top bit set. For
- =example, both 0x20 and 0a0 are used for space characters.
- =
- =|> Now my questions: - why can I type (and read) it on a vt100 but not on a
- =|> vt220?
- =
- =Maybe the vt100 is connected via a 7 bit data-path.
-
- Good guess, but wrong. I took a quick look at the file he included, and, using
- my VT220 clone, the file looked fine in VT100 mode, but was gibberish in VT200
- mode (no commands to change the terminal settings on the VAX between the
- tests).
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-