You can always rely on your old friend fcopy...

:fcopy from=my.weird.file; to=; hex; char

B.



On 8/25/15 6:36 PM, Michael wrote:
> To turn on 'display characters', aka, display functions.
> All that's needed is a HP terminal or a good HP terminal emulator, and
> at the MPE prompt:
> type<esc>Y
> cat, more, or print the file.......
> Then<esc>Z to disable.
>
> ;-)
> Mike.
>
> On 08/25/2015 06:07 PM, Art Bahrs wrote:
>> Hi Gilles,
>>      If you have Qedit (doable in other editors as well) ... turn on 'display characters' (or was it 'show characters'???)  and display the single record.  There maybe some characters (Escape Codes anyone?) that won't normally display.
>>
>> Art "just a thought :P hehehehe" Bahrs
>>
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>>>> On 08/25/2015 01:13 PM, Gsainc wrote:
>>>> Anybody know what the system file X1041422.PUB.SYS is used for ?
>>>>
>>>> It's on a customer's MPE/iX 6.5 system.
>>>>
>>>> The CHECKSLT program complains that the file should be binary (it's ASCII) and it's length is wrong (it's 80 bytes).
>>>>
>>>> The file contains a single blank record.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Gilles Schipper

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