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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:The Digital way of working
Moderator:QUARK::LIONELON
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5321
Total number of notes:139771

3840.0. "16-pitch writing needed" by MRKTNG::HAMMOND_N () Mon May 01 1995 15:54

Can anybody help, please?
    
We are creating some 132-column reports using COBOL.  They print LANDSCAPE
very nicely.  These reports are sent via ALL-IN-1 mail to users worldwide. 
The problem is that when they try to read them on a PC screen, the reports
wrap around, making it difficult to read.  Screens can't be made to display
narrow/wide print on demand.
    
    Does anybody know how to create the report with a 16 pitch using COBOL?

Thanks,

Nena Hammond 
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3840.1ATLANT::SCHMIDTE&RT -- Embedded and RealTime EngineeringMon May 01 1995 16:1730
Nena:

  What tool(s) do the users use to access these reports? A terminal
  emulator running ALL-IN-1 mail? If so, you may have limited success
  by inserting the Escape sequence that causes terminals to switch to
  132-column mode. However:

    o This won't work on all terminal emulators. It would
      work on the one I'm using right now from my Macintosh,
      but wouldn't on another one that I frequently use.

    o You can't tell what mode (80- or 132-column) that they
      were in in the first place, so you can't unambiguously
      switch them back to the correct mode. Also, aborting your
      mail message in mid-output will leave them in 132-column
      mode.


  Maybe it would be better to find a way to kludge your output into
  a real compound-document format like MS/Word, include the tiny-font
  commands in the document, and then get your users to download
  ("Mail/foreign"?) the resulting Word document.

                                   Atlant


P.S.: <Esc>[?3h  or  <CSI>?3h  enters 132-column mode;
      <Esc>[?3l  or  <CSI>?3l  exits 132-column mode.
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