Windowes & ASCII Characters

[Timothy R Barr]

Richard,
in Windows FilePro the end-of-field marker is controlled by the environment
variable PFEOF=[ASCII_code] rather than termcap like Unix.

Examples:
PFEOF=17 (left triangle - default)
PFEOF=7 (medium dot)
PFEOF=250 (small dot)
PFEOF=32 (space)

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Scroll Field - Starting with version 5.8.2, you can use a backslash (\) to
end a long field early and make it scrollable for data entry.  It uses a
"greater-than-sign" as the EOF marker.

Browse Field - PFSHOWF6ARROW=ON - is supposed to display a down arrow as
the EOF for fields with an F6 browse.


Timothy R Barr, CPE, VP/CTO
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 05:05:14PM +0000, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list
thus spoke:
> One of my clients just upgraded to Windows 10 home and is having a
display issue with filePro.  The end of field marker is showing as a
question mark (?).
>
> I am trying to figure out why he is having this issue.  He is running
filePro 5.0
>
> I downloaded the dcabe help file to see make use of the ASCII chart and
the graphics code chart in this help.  Where the end of field character
should be (\GZ ) on his system it is q question mark on my system the end
of field marker appears correctly.
>
>
> 1.      Does nay one have a suggestion as to what might be causing this
issue? I have already checked the code page which is being used and it
matches mine.
>
> 2.      Does anyone know the ASCII code for the end of field marker?
>
> 3.      Anyone have code for displaying the ASCII code for this character
within filePro.
>
> I f wrote this routine but it failed as it only read the back slash \
>
> aa="\gZ"
>
> MSGBOX "The ASCII value of aa is"<chr(aa) - this displays as 92 as that
is the value for the backslash
>
> The following code display on a screen:
>
> aa="\gZ"
> ab=asc(aa)
> ac=chr(aa)
>
> aa displays on screen as \gZ
> ab displays as 92
> ac displays as -
>
> My client did not have this issue when these computers were using Windows
7.
>
> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Richard Kriess
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