On 11 Jan 2007 15:25:20 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Harminc)
wrote:

>> Why all this mickeymouse?  Why doesn't ATTN simply work?
>
>It's partly an ISPF thing; they broke the TSO attention paradigm many years
>ago. Even the most basic use of ATTN doesn't work properly under ISPF; once
>you've hit it, you can't return to the command in progress, as you can if
>you started from a READY prompt.

Of course most TSO users now have keyboards with SysRq, Scroll Lock,
and Pause/Break keys wasting space on their PCs.

Do they get used at all?

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