Grid-Line Draw Control

Grid-line draw control is used to store the grid-line screen format in the PC400. The format of the control data is as follows:
Figure 1. Grid-Line Control Data Format

Picture of grid-line draw control format.
This control data is sent as normal display data from an application program on the host system. The starting position for displaying this data should be specified as follows:
  1. Grid-line draw control code: first line, first column
  2. Grid-line designation data: first line, fourth column

The last byte of the control code should be the attribute X'20' or X'27', which indicates the end of the field. This attribute character should be sent from the host so that it can be overridden with the non-display attribute X'27', which is the first byte of the grid-line designation data. Items 1 and 2 should be defined as different fields. When it receives the grid-line draw control code and the grid-line designation data, PC400 stores the grid-line designation data in the specified grid-line information buffer.

However, the grid-line screen format is displayed when receiving character data that contains the information to display the grid-line screen format.