On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 09:33:48 -0500, Thompson, Steve wrote: >> >I did this quite by accident this afternoon -- bad finger fumble. >And I watched while the progress bar began to creep across the window >with aching slowness. Curses! But wait; there appears to be an escape: >the key legend at the bottom of the popup says, >"PF12 - Cancel". I press PF12. Nothing happens. But I've learned to >deal with these silly-assed 3270 terminals. I press RESET. ><SNIP> > >Did you try <ATTN> or <PA1>? > Instead of RESET? RESET seems to be the only thing that has any effect while the keyboard is locked. (I realize this is getting into terminal emulator idiosyncrasies and VTAMicity.) In any case, don't you believe that whatever works instead of PF12, whether RESET, PA1, ATTN, ... should be the thing that appears in the popup legend, and if the operation can't be cancelled, the legend should omit the misleading entry?
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