Re: 132 column display

James Rich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Jim Donoghue wrote:

> Thanks, I created a .tn5250rc file and it works great. One thing I noticed
> is that the display is in 24x80 mode until I run something that can make use
> of the 132 column mode. The first time I tried it, I thought it didn't work
> until I tried running SEU. When exited, it returns to 24x80.
>
> What is 'cursor progression'?

Cursor progression is a feature that allows the cursor to move in a 
sequence other that upper left to lower right.  Suppose you have two 
columns on a screen and you want the cursor to move straight down the left 
column and then straight down the right column instead of moving from one 
column to the next before moving down a row.  You can specify the DDS 
keyword FLDCSRPRG in the screen file to instruct the cursor which field 
the cursor should move to when it exits the current field.  In order for 
this to work the terminal must tell the host that it supports that 
feature.  That is what the +enhanced keyword in .tn5250rc does.

James Rich

if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on
the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
when you're done reading them :)
 	- Paul Davis on ardour-dev
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