XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODEThe Special TableThe Special Table is a translation table that has been designedespecially for users operating in an IBM 3274 coaxial connectionenvironment. It can be selected using the Language command(selecting language G).Note: The Special Table does not recognise control codes (i.e.,hexadecimal values less than EBCDIC 40H) or the space character(EBCDIC 40H). These codes must be reassigned to a valid valuein the table before they can be used.Do not select the Special Table for systems using the ASCIIencoding.The Special Table provides 91 codes for symbols, plus thefollowing predefined codes:EBCDIC 4AH yields ASCII OCH (FF)EBCDIC 5FH yields ASCII 15H (NL); may be used in place of(CR) and (LF) or line end.EBCDIC 6AH yields ASCII 1BH (ESC)EBCDIC 79H yields ASCII 20H (space)User defined translation tablesA user defined code assignment table can be created anddownloaded to the printer, where it remains available as analternate language selection (language H in the Languagecommand).Translation table structureA downloaded translation table, which is created with theCharacter Reassignment command, has three parts:• The table load initiator, which is the E+T,L part of thecommand. It signals to the printer that the data following it isa character table data.• The table data record or records. This part of the commandcontains the actual code assignment data. The data may besent as one long record, or as a series of records.XEROX 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAMMER REFERENCE 2-109
