It's TGET not TPUT to get the data: Where do I start?

I think last responder ment TGET to get data and cursor location, TPUT is
for output. And I agree "Insert Cursor" is the IC attribute.


steve



On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Dave Wade <g4ugm-/rAkYNWUBEC+PENguQupYdBc4/[email protected]>wrote:

> Ron Hudson wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Mike Schwab <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >     If you send data out, and want it back, you have to turn on the
> >     Modified Data Tag (MDT) bit in the attribute for that field.
> >
> > Only if the user does not edit that field.. If the user edits the field
> > the MDT
> > is set for you.
> >
> > Right now I am trying to get underlinded fields to work - my first field
> > starts
> > underlining but it never stops to the end of the screen
> >
> > Oh and is '[' Square bracket not a mainframe character?  when I try to
> > place one in RPF I get
> > a U with an accent of some sort.
> >
>
> It wasn't on the original 3270 keyboard. When I worked in connecting
> ASCII terminals to VM where you put it in EBCDIC was always a topic for
> debate. Check your code page settings in the Hercules and also those in
> your 3270 emulator. I use PCOMMS with code page 1047 and it puts {} on
> hex AD & BD which I think is the "modern" (i.e. the one the IBM C
>  Compiler) expects standard.
>
>
> >     On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:33 PM, scott <[email protected]
> >     <mailto:svetter%40ameritech.net <svetter%2540ameritech.net>>> wrote:
> >      >
> >      > On 05/24/2010 07:04 PM, Ron Hudson wrote:
> >      >
> >      > Yes, I copied and pasted them all into one local word doc so I
> >     could look at paper while I had my screen up...
> >      >
> >      > Right now I have two fields that accept alpha numeric text
> >      > (I have not figgured out how to use them yet -but I have them)
> >      >
> >      > I can tab between them and edit them.
> >      >
> >      > Is there a way to have the cursor resting in one when the user
> >     gets control?
> >      >
> >      > Ron.
> >      >
> >      >    Yes, look at the IC command which I believe is x'13'.  (Saying
> >     this from memory)
> >      >
> >      >    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.
> >      >
> >      > Scott
> >     --
> >
> >     Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA
> >     Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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