[Info-vax] terminal fallback tables

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In article <36571aba-d73d-4ab8-8bf8-93efa884d8f6 at googlegroups.com>, jirkak737 at gmail.com writes:
>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

Sorry, it's been years since I've looked at TFF.  I thought it was described
in the manual.  

The TFF macros, needed to make your own fallback table, are not available in
STARLET.MLB or LIB.MLB libraries.  You'd need a copy of the source listings
to get the TFF$MACROS module or the TFF$STURCTURES.LIS (a listing containing
the SDL describing the TFF structure).

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