I remember one of those terminals from the 1980s.

Are they still using the ET-style HP262# model terminals?

Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: NTC John Pitman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 9:39 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] FW: Arabic translation - character set that is.
> 
> 
> A friend works on a 3000 system here in Riyadh where data is stored in
> Arabic characters, input on HP Terminals. Sometimes they wish 
> to send this
> data to Windows PCs for various purposes, but the character 
> sets conflict.
> About 70% of them are mapped the same on the two systems, but 
> the rest have
> different bit patterns.
> 
> Does anybody know of any code that can do the necessary translations
> (preferably in both directions) that will run on either (or 
> both) Windows
> and MPE please?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John Pitman
> NTC Riyadh
> 01) 477 4710 X 1104
> 056447214

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