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WED dropping characters

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Category: AccuTerm Knowledge Base (read only)
Forum Name: Advanced Features
Forum Description: Private escape sequences, host integration using the AccuTerm Server and ObjectBridge
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Topic: WED dropping characters

Posted By: Auctor
Subject: WED dropping characters
Date Posted: November 08 2018 at 6:58am

I recently used WED to copy a record from one server to another. One of the lines in the record contained a string of EBCDIC characters. After having problems with the copy of the record, I discovered that WED was dropping all EBCDIC zero characters (0xf0).

The actual record data was
^198^211^241^241^240^241K^240^240^242^240^240^246^240^243^240^243
which translates to FL1101.0020060303.
What WED presented when I edited the record was
^198^211^241^241^241K^242^246^243^243
which translates to FL111.2633.

Is this something that can be corrected or does the communication between the server and WED.EXE on the PC use 0xf0 for a special purpose?

Replies:

Posted By: PSchellenbach
Date Posted: November 12 2018 at 10:10am

Hi Auctor -

I don't think wED is responsible for dropping the 0xF0 characters. I created a test item on QM, that contained a few CHAR(240) characters in the record, and was able to open it in wED, modify the item, save from wED and re-open without losing any characters.

Thanks,

Pete

Posted By: Auctor
Date Posted: November 13 2018 at 5:00am

Interesting. I'll try to find some time in the next few weeks to track down where the characters are being dropped.