Re: Question about lp5250d and SCS2ASCII

hmm.. forget about the character translation problem.. it was a bad WSCST 
file i was using. i apologize for my error :-)
I will prepare a raw dump as suggested of a file that will get splitted.
Thanks!
Ciao :-)
Alberto.

"Alberto" <a.ernestini-UVFfO7pX/[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:mailman.27875.1273783844.2580.linux5250-Zwy7GipZuJitq2lpoERdew@public.gmane.org
> 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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