Wow - thanks Rick - I hadn't played with conmode 3270 or dialing..  thanks
for reminding us --

Scott

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Rick Troth <r...@casita.net> wrote:

> 'vi' will come up clean on a (dialed) 3270 (or the console if you did a
> #CP TERM CONMODE 3270  before bringing up Linux).  You will still have
> pain w/r/t the <Esc> key.  The 3270 driver honors the cursor positioning
> and text highlighting protocol used by a DEC VT220 (roughly ANSI X3.64).
>
>
> With a (dialed) 3270, the PF keys will also work,
> so one could easily write a full-screen text-mode ASCII application
> that works equally well on either an ASCII terminal or on the 3270.
> No one seems to get this.  UTS had (has!) the same capability.
> This is nothing new!
>
>
> -- R;   <><
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