[Info-vax] terminal fallback tables

jirkak737 at gmail.com jirkak737 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 7 09:00:57 EST 2015


On Saturday, March 7, 2015 at 1:27:27 PM UTC+1, VAXman- wrote:
> In article <40200fee-1fa1-4f6e-92dd-0b9db0e8b146 at googlegroups.com>, jirkak737 at gmail.com writes:
> >I'd like to make my own fallback tables to translate character sets (iso-8859-2 <-> cp1250, iso-8859-1 <-> cp1252, ...).
> >But fallback tables in SYS$SYSTEM:TFF$MASTER.DAT are in binary format.
> >Is there any TFF description language and a compiler to produce these tables ?
> >I did not find any mention in TFU doc how to make TFF tables.
> >Is there any better source of information than TFF driver and TFU source listings ?
> 
> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/73final/documentation/pdf/ovms_fallback_util.pdf
> 
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OpenVMS Terminal Fallback Utility Manual
(http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/73final/documentation/pdf/ovms_fallback_util.pdf)
does not answer my questions. It describes how to use existing tables, but not how to create new one. :-(
Jiri



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