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Converting Source for Ideographic Support

A special utility is provided to assist with the preparation of applications to run on ideographic machines. The utility enables you to automatically convert DDS source to run under an ideographic version of i OS, that is, with DBCS (Double Byte Character Set) support. Therefore, in effect, a single set of DDS source files can be used for both environments. This reduces the task of maintenance and simplifies system building.

Conversion is carried out by a Toolkit command Convert DDS to IGC (YCVTDDSIGC). The command can used to convert both to and from IGC format.

Before you use the command on a source file you must mark up the source with additional comments to direct the conversion process. Refer to the command diagram for the Convert DDS to IGC command for further details.

The following represents the use of DDS IGC conversion utility.