In <9616460194674244.wa.juergen.kellerdeutscheboerse....@bama.ua.edu>, on 11/10/2011 at 07:23 AM, Juergen Keller <juergen.kel...@deutsche-boerse.com> said:
>I wonder what the TERMINAL-command is for. It saves the information for use by VTIOC and applications. >When I change SCRSIZE I can see that something changes but not for >the application issuing some TPUTs It's the responsibility of the application to query the screen size before doing full-screen I/O. If the application only uses line mode then VTIOC will handle the screen geometry automatically. >(I think that are TPUTs). TPUT is certainly the most common interface to VTIOC. >I traced the data send to the screen and there where only the >typical 2-byte-fields giving the position. Yes, and the application needs the screen width in order to convert row/column to buffer address. >Yes we can change the application program but its a very old one and >I think noone will do that. Then run it in an 80-wide screen. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html