> A 3270 emulator should (by configuration option) automatically send PF8 when > the user moves the cursor past the bottom of the screen.
I'd find that highly unnatural. If I move past the bottom of the screen I expect to scroll down one line. > I think an enhanced ISPF should be factored as an X11 client, > with all the nice things that aren't "possible via 3270." > Or is that what WSA already does? Alas, no. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 2:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:41:42 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: >I haven't used SPF/PC in many years, but I do remember it doing things >that weren't possible via 3270, and those were sometimes a surprise. >For example, I think I remember it automatically scrolling down text >just by moving the cursor past the bottom of the screen. Can't do that >on a real 3270 terminal. > Are you suggesting (below) that's undesirable? I'd think it ideal. A 3270 emulator should (by configuration option) automatically send PF8 when the user moves the cursor past the bottom of the screen. >One of my many dead-end projects was a C program that would run in the >background on Windows, listen on a port for your own TN3270 emulator, >and then simulate the TN3720 connection processing and basic ISPF >screens, editor, 3.4, etc. The idea was that you could use your >favorite TN3270 emulator for the equivalent of SPF/PC, which would then >eliminate the possibility of the SPF/PC surprises I mentioned. Then the >same code could be recompiled easily on Linux, since there's no GUI >code. Your own terminal emulator is the GUI. Maybe somebody else >already thought of this idea and finished it, unlike lazy Tom. > I think an enhanced ISPF should be factored as an X11 client, with all the nice things that aren't "possible via 3270." Or is that what WSA already does? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
