On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:14:34 +0100 "John Hitchcock"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thank you Norman, Robert, Jerome and Marcel for your help with this.
>
> Not a small part of my problem [with TRA] may be because I have no
> full
> documentation for the command. As I said - I turned up Jan
> Bredenbeek's
> program "TRA1_bas" (QUANTA October 1986 p9ff and QUANTA [Old]
> QLibrary Disk
> 12). That was the code I listed here. (It is itself accompanied by
> copious
> notes).
<snip>
> I'm anxious to implement TRA - by any means. Just the bit that
> allows the
> translation of codes on their way to a port will be enough for my
> present
> purpose. Can anyone point me please to an accessible "description
> of the
> TRA command"? Syntax and examples would really be the icing.
I wrote a simple "front end" for TRA shortly after Jan's code was
published. I can't give you the information, off hand; but, if you
contact NESQLUG, directly, they should have [access to] the article and
can probably give you the info.
It's been a while, but I can tell you that TRA is used to TRAnslate the
SERial output ... whereby you tell the TRA program presumed sets/pairs of
CHR$ codes ... input and output ... I think I used this because I had a
Cyrillic printwheel which whose hard accent I couldn't access without
assigning the character to another key (i.e., CHR$) reference.
In otherwords, it is a supplement to your printer_dat.
NOTE: AFAIK, both the input AND output can be a series of CHR$ codes ...
I'm pretty sure that you LBYTE your XXX_tra code [NB: if _tra is not the
suffix assigned by TRA1_bas (I think it was something like 'tra_cde' and
I amended the program so the name of the code was user selectable) then
THAT is probably what I renamed it as since that might have made more
sense to me].
Hope that helps in the meantime.
Al
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