Re: Question about lp5250d and SCS2ASCII

Hi again, i am still working on this "problem" and i want to share my 
thoughts with you all.

At the start i've thought it was a "Iseries" problem caused by some strange 
data sent from the Iseries to the lp5250d, but the same "bad" spool file 
sent to another Iseries system and printed via lp5250d has the same problem.
I suspect that it could be a "codepage" problem.
Let me explain better : i use lp5250d under my Ubuntu 9.04 box and the LANG 
variable is set to it_IT.UTF8 .
I've noticed by example that italian specific chars like òàùìè that are 
shown on the spool file will get badly translated on  UTF8 with a graphic 
char or something like this on the output pcl file.
Now imagine if a character like this apppears on a page and the emulator 
"thinks" it's a EOF char , it probably could close the file.
Couln't this could happen also with other chars ?
I  am still trying to find the right way for make you reproduce the problem, 
so i'll let you know asap !!  :-)
Thanks for your time!
Ciao.
Alberto.


"Alberto" <a.ernestini-UVFfO7pX/[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:mailman.24831.1272099037.2580.linux5250-Zwy7GipZuJitq2lpoERdew@public.gmane.org
> Hi Scott, let me organize about, i will tell you exactly how to reproduce 
> the problem .
> Thanks.
> Ciao.
> Alberto.
>
> "Scott Klement" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio 
> news:mailman.24724.1272043072.2580.linux5250-Zwy7GipZuJitq2lpoERdew@public.gmane.org
>> Can you tell us how to reproduce this problem?   You don't have to debug 
>> lp5250d for us -- just tell us how we can create the same problem on our 
>> machines.
>>
>>
>> On 4/23/2010 2:52 AM, Alberto wrote:
>>> Hi James , thanks for your answer!
>>> I'm sorry for the mistake, probably caused by my very BAD english and 
>>> no, i
>>> don't want that the split happens because i sometimes do some kind of
>>> "postprocessing" of the output file and i really need to have only one 
>>> file.
>>> Means one spool file with one output file, nothing more and nothing less 
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> Looking at the spool file from the AS/400 side, dumping it with CPYSPLF
>>> *FCFC and *PRTCTL  it seems there isn't nothing special at the page 
>>> where
>>> the file get splitted.
>>> Then i've generated a output file using Iseries Access for Windows using 
>>> the
>>> same configuration of lp5250d, and at the page where the split happens 
>>> there
>>> is no trace of  the ÿ character, and the file is complete.
>>>
>>> If i concatenate the two files i get when the problem happens, the 
>>> output
>>> pcl file is absolutely valid and usable.
>>> So the lp5250d seems that sometimes receives some unpredictable char 
>>> from
>>> the AS/400 and closes the output file before the writer  has completed 
>>> the
>>> job, then the writer still sends the remaining pages and the emulator
>>> creates a new file.
>>> This is what i've noticed, let me know if you need more informations and
>>> tests.
>>> Thanks a lot!
>>> Ciao.
>>> Alberto.
>>>
>
>

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