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Selecting a Translation Table
When configuring the OPTIMA output ports, for each input device the
appropriate translation table must be selected. The default selection of the
translation tables might meet the users needs, but the user may need to
find the appropriate tables from among the other fifteen tables included
with the software.
The sixteen tables are as follows:
ASCII->ASCII: ASCII to ASCII (default for 5250 ALLY & alternate
host)
EBCDIC->ASCII: EBCDIC to ASCII (default for twinax translation)
ASCII->EBCDIC: ASCII to EBCDIC
EBCDIC->EBCDIC: EBCDIC to EBCDIC
EBCDIC->HP LJ: EBCDIC to HP LaserJet (Roman 8 extended ASCII)
EBCDIC->PC: EBCDIC to PC (standard PC extended ASCII
character set)
EBCDIC->PS: EBCDIC to PostScript (IsoLatin1 extended ASCII
character set)
275 E->A: Xerox 275 protocol converter EBCDIC to ASCII
User Table 1: User-defined
User Table 2: User-defined
User Table 3: User-defined
User Table 4: User-defined
User Table 5: User-defined
User Table 6: User-defined
User Table 7: User-defined
XFNTE->A: Xerox EBCDIC Font Download to ASCII (default
for fonts)
Notice that the tables are mostly made up of some combination of
EBCDIC or ASCII. To determine which is the appropriate table for an
input device at an output port, the user must determine the format of the
data stream and the format used by the printer. If the source device is
twinax, the input will be in EBCDIC. If the source device is a PC, the input
will probably be ASCII. The printer might use either EBCDIC, ASCII,
Hewlett-Packard LaserJet, PC ASCII or Postscript. If unsure what format
the device uses, please consult the manual that came with it.
Once the appropriate table for each input/output device combination has
been determined, find XLTINFO: in the menu under each output port
configuration heading. Then, for each input device, select the appropriate
table name, and press ENTER.