Re: x5250 keyboard locks up

On Fri, 8 Nov 2013, Melissa  Jimenez wrote:

> I'm back here to get some help. I'm currently using x5250. It was the
> only option I had after spending months trying to configure tn5250 and
> xt5250 to have a destructive backspace. When I had thought the
> terminal emulator was working how I wanted it, I found another issue.
> Every time an user inputs something they shouldn't, a warning message
> appears at the bottom ("field requires numeric characters" or "only
> characters 0 to 9 allowed" or "function key not allowed"...etc...) and
> then the keyboard locks up and there's no way to move the cursor or
> input anything or exit the screen. The only thing I've been able to do
> to get it out of this state was bringing up the attn prompt by
> pressing ESC and then pressing ENTER. This takes me back to a state
> where I can input information. On a regular terminal, whenever the
> keyboard locks up with an error, you can usually press CTRL to clear
> it but I haven't found anything similar here
> Is there anything I can do?

Press control-r

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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