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ETU400 User Guide 011603

 

The translation tables provided with ETU have three purposes. They:

•  translate data from ASCII to EBCDIC or from EBCDIC to ASCII;

•  specify whether the file being translated has a fixed or variable

format;

•  tell the host whether the micro involved in the translation is a DOS-

based PC or a Mac.

Each translation table is stored as a member in a physical file. The DOS-

based tables are in a physical file called TRANSLATE in the host library

containing the ETU programs. The Mac translation tables are in a physical

file called MACTAB in the same library.

The source for each table is also included with ETU. Each table is stored

as a source member in a source file called TRANSSRC, also in the library

containing the ETU programs. To modify a translation table, you will

change one of the source members.

There are four tables for PC-DOS translations and three for the Mac

translations. Each table and its function is described below in Table 8-

1.

Table 8-1 The ETU translation table members in source file TRANSSRC

ETOA1

The EBCDIC-to-ASCII character translation

member producing a variable length record,

with carriage return and line feed added

after the last byte of data in each record.

Trailing blanks are stripped. 

ETOA1

The EBCDIC-to-ASCII character translation

member producing a basic random file on the

PC, with no carriage return line feed.

ETOA1

The EBCDIC-to-ASCII character translation

member producing a fixed length record,

with carriage return and line feed added at

the end of each record. Trailing blanks are

not stripped.

ATOE1

The ASCII-to-EBCDIC fixed and variable-

length member

PC DOS 

Translation Tables

ATOE3

The ASCII-to-EBCDIC print translation

member

ETOA1M

The EBCDIC-to-ASCII character translation

member producing a variable length record,

with carriage return and line feed added

after the last byte of data in each record.

Trailing blanks are stripped.

ETOA2M

The EBCDIC-to-ASCII character translation

member producing a variable-length record,

with carriage return and line feed added

after the last byte of data in each record.

Trailing blanks are stripped.

Mac

Translation Tables 

ATOE1M

The EBCDIC-to-ASCII character translation

member producing a basic random file on the

PC, with no carriage return line feed.