Re: Where do I start?

On 05/25/2010 03:44 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote:
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>>    Yes, look at the IC command which I believe is x'13'.  (Saying
>> this from memory)
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>>    As for the input I know you use the TPUT command and it returns a
>> buffer string.  Again from memory, the TPUT returns the length of the
>> gotten string, and the buffer contains the location of where the
>> cursor was at, what attention key was hit, following this is the
>> input location and the text.
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> You're confusing TPUT with TGET. Unfortunately, TGET doesn't give that
> much information. There are several chapters in the TSO Programming
> Guide devoted to terminal I/O and you should study them carefully
> before attempting any kind of major project. Go get the manual from
> the IBM Web site, in either BookManager or PDF format and study it
> carefully.
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> You can learn about the various commands, addressing, etc. for the
> 3270 from "IBM 3270 Information Display System Reference Summary",
> GX20-1878. If you see multiper versions, grab them all as the 3270
> display evolved quite a bit and I don't remember exactly which models
> were available in the days of MVS 3.8J.
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> Rick
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   Quite correct, one uses TGET to get the information.