Re: Clearing the 3270 terminal

2002-06-05 Thread Rob van der Heij
At 04:02 05-06-02, Richard Hitt wrote: Sorry, I was on vacation last week. Apologies accepted, but don't let it happen again rotfla Hey, don't you have an 'out-of-office agent' ? Many do :-( Sorry, could not resist... Rob

Re: Clearing the 3270 terminal

2002-06-05 Thread John Summerfield
Hey, don't you have an 'out-of-office agent' ? Many do :-( Sorry, could not resist... Rob You, sir, can have all mine. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition.

Re: Clearing the 3270 terminal

2002-06-05 Thread Rick Troth
The UTS Global 3270 line-mode driver was designed to handle many commonly encountered ESC sequences too, for example those generated by the ls command in its full-color glory; ... It is conceivable that applications like 'yast' could be modified so that what they see as a block mode ANSI

Re: Clearing the 3270 terminal

2002-06-04 Thread Richard Hitt
complete at 05/29/2002 11:28:00 AM Approved-By: Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 11:17:56 -0400 From: Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Clearing the 3270 terminal To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday, 05/29/2002 at 10:47 CET, Dougie G Lawson/UK

Re: Clearing the 3270 terminal

2002-05-30 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 05/29/2002 at 10:47 CET, Dougie G Lawson/UK/Contr/IBM@LOTUSINT wrote: IF you are using 3270 support (ie: that contributed by UTSGlobal) then you might be able to effect a 3270 clear screen operation by feeding the right 3270 program down the 3270 side of that driver. Sending

Re: Clearing the 3270 terminal

2002-05-29 Thread Dougie G Lawson/UK/Contr/IBM
IF you are using 3270 support (ie: that contributed by UTSGlobal) then you might be able to effect a 3270 clear screen operation by feeding the right 3270 program down the 3270 side of that driver. Sending this X'C71140C13C404000' should clear any 3270, any mode, primary or alt screen size.

Clearing the 3270 terminal

2002-05-28 Thread dkennedy
Hello, I am working with Linux/390 and I am trying to do a few things with the 3270 console. One of the first things I am trying to do is to clear the screen. I have been unable to do that so far. I have tried the following things: - Looking in the termcap or terminfo databases. The

Re: Clearing the 3270 terminal

2002-05-28 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Diagnose instructions require that you be in supervisor state. Thus, you'd need to have it occur in a device driver. Are you operating as a 3270 or in the line-mode (3215) emulation of a virtual machine console? -Original Message- Hello, I am working with Linux/390 and I am trying to

Re: Clearing the 3270 terminal

2002-05-28 Thread Rick Troth
Probably not what you want to hear, but: - Looking in the termcap or terminfo databases. The termcap and terminfo sections for 3270 are quite incomplete. As a result, programs like /bin/clear don't function properly. Presumes that the console driver would

Re: Clearing the 3270 terminal

2002-05-28 Thread Rick Troth
BY THE WAY ... I maintained for years, and still do, that a 3270 can be used effectively from carefully written ASCII application programs. The big requirement is not 3270 data streams nor EBCDIC, it's block mode toleration. Tools like YaST are awfully close to being able to do this. The