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- Date: 18 AUG 92 18:08:34 GMT
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- X-RFC822-From: "L. Stuart Vance" <VANCE@TGV.COM>
- From: "L. Stuart Vance" <VANCE@TGV.COM>
- Subject: Re: TN3270 "feature"
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- >In article <714068246.612886.VANCE@TGV.COM>, VANCE@TGV.COM (L. Stuart Vance) writes...
- >>I believe that what the user needs is the PA1 key. Which for a VT100 class
- >>terminal (or VT200, 300, 400) would be ^P1 (Control-P followed by a 1) or
- >><ESC><PF1> (Escape followed by a PF1). The key sequences are defined in
- >>MULTINET:MAP3270.DAT.
- >
- >PA2 (^P2) or, alternatively, CLEAR (^L). PA2 is faster and preserves whatever
- >you might have typed in the input window. CLEAR throws away everything and thus
- >the input window has to be redrawn.
-
- I knew that it was one of the PA keys. PA1 (attention) is definitely not a
- good one to use. If I recall my VM days, PA1 drops you into CP! PA2 can be
- typed by using either ^P2 or <ESC><PF2>.
-
- Regards,
- -----Stuart
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