On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:10:51 +0000, Rob Scott wrote: > >(3) Automatically stripping trailing blanks from the first line would require >SDSF to have knowledge of the syntax of the command or some sort of awareness >of whether quotes or double-quotes are in effect and unbounded and if so, is >this meaningful or not. This is not something that SDSF wants to get involved >in as the text is freeform and what might appear to be apparent strange values >may be expected by the receiving user or ISV software product that processes >the command. > No! Don't think of "stripping trailing blanks". Simply don't append blanks when the input field contained NULs (which the 3270 protocol doesn't transmit to the host. Some emulators deviate from this.)
>The lack of "insert mode" across both lines is frustrating, but I am not sure >there is a solution to that apart from a wide screen panel that has a single >input field. This would only provide relief for people running wide screen >3270 modes and most of our users are 43x80. > A field needn't be restricted to a single line. Those two lines should be formatted as a single field. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
