Hi Charles,
Yes, when you copy the typically-used ISPF GE characters (boxes, and a
few others I think), Vista converts them to something hopefully a little
more useful in ASCII. Same with screen prints. This is to try to avoid
font problems on the printer and when copy/pasting ASCII text.
Here's an ISPF box copy/paste, with plus signs for corners and vertical
bars for the sides:
Menu Utilities Compilers Options Status Help
+-----------------------------+ --------------------
| 1. Settings | Primary Option Menu
| 2. View |
| 3. Edit |
| 4. ISPF Command Shell | er parameters
| 5. Dialog Test... | data or listings
| 6. Other IBM Products... | e source data
| 7. SCLM | functions
| 8. ISPF Workplace | guage processing
| 9. Status Area... | language processing
| 10. Exit | rkstation commands
+-----------------------------+ testing
9 IBM Products IBM program development products
Hmm... I remember drawing boxes in a text file using those same
characters, and PGM=IEBROT would turn them into smooth boxes on a 3800
laser printer.
If you have a Vista font file in c:\windows\fonts, I have to say I've
bobbled back and forth over the years between putting it there and
loading it dynamically. Kind of like the neverending struggle of which
code page to have as the default 37, or 1047 :)
Tom
Charles Mills wrote:
FWIW I am running Vista on Win 10 and have no character display issues. I don't
have the OP in front of me. Did he say exactly what horizontal line he was
having trouble with?
Here, this is from the top line menu in ISPF. Interestingly, it pastes here as hyphens
but what displays in Vista is definitely different from how a hyphen displays. A series
of hyphens makes a "dashed" line; this horizontal line is solid.
. File Edit Edit_Settings Menu Utilities Compilers Test Help .
. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .
My Win 10 Fonts folder shows something called Vista GE Fonts Regular.
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