On Saturday, 09/30/2006 at 12:21 AST, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > I'm starting to remember, the 3210 and 3215 had some kind of key to
> > press, to say "Scuse me, I've got something to say."
>
> ATTN, I think.

On your 3270 it is still available by pressing the left-arrow key (to get
the cursor out of the command line field) and then ENTER.  We call this
the "null line attention interrupt".

It is still used to interrupt a CMS application console read.  The ATTN
interrupt causes CMS to suspend the application read and replace it with a
CMS command handler read.  Then you can use HX to cancel the running
program that has issued a read to the console.

You can get the same result by issuing #CP ATTN (but left-cursor-ENTER is
faster).

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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