On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 16:57:25 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Do you mean curses commands or HTML markup as opposed to 3270 buffer orders? > Any of those. Most likely ANSI terminal cursor positioning commands. Any of those interfere with copying a screen image to a document, replicating a reported problem, or Copying/Pasting a code snippet into a program.
Screen bitmaps may be worst. (I have known naive programmers to embed HP PCL commands in PostScript files and react with outrage when they don't "work.") >________________________________________ >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2022 11:52 AM > >On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 03:54:33 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >>Or they support the c&p conventions of the desktop they run on and assdume >>that the user already knows those. >> >That's likely not to work because lines might be separated and indented not by >CRLF >and leading spaces but by cursor addressing commands which are not meaningful >when pasted into a text document. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
