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- From: eric@sejnet.sunet.se (Eric Thomas)
- Subject: MAP3270 documentation
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.180505.1@sejnet.sunet.se>
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- Sender: news@sunic.sunet.se
- Reply-To: ERIC@SEARN.SUNET.SE
- Organization: SUNET, Stockholm, Sweden
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 18:05:05 GMT
-
- After hitting the backspace key by reflex for the 30284th time, seeing it
- perform a 3270 delete function (like the keypad comma under EDT), producing the
- usual curse and re-inserting the character I had just deleted, I decided today
- was the day I would fix this nonsense. I already knew how to edit MAP3270
- settings and everything, I just needed the list of available functions and the
- escape code for the various keys.
-
- Unfortunately, the online help did not provide much help. I ended up having to
- FTP the unix version of tn3270, extracting the man files from the package,
- finding out how to format them, and then writing a program to get the codes of
- the keys I wanted to assign. I now have the 3270 delete function on the REMOVE
- key, which in fact is very close to the location of the delete key on a real
- 3270 keyboard, and the backspace working as expected, so my problem is solved.
- However, I don't think I should have to FTP unix programs to get a description
- of the MAP3270 options. Could this be included in the online help for the next
- version? How hard would it be to allow key names a la DEFINE/KEY to be
- specified, in addition to the escape sequence scheme? Could we also get a user
- exit to decide what constitutes a word, and whether the end of a word is its
- last character or the position after it? The tn3270 definition is both stupid
- and different from the (equally stupid) behaviour of real 3270's.
-
- Before I get flamed: I realize TGV is not responsible for the way tn3270 works.
- That shouldn't prevent me from asking for improvements, though ;-)
-
- Eric
-