I always regarded the scrolling on TSPF as an expected feature on a PC application, rather than as a surprise. As long as things that worked on ISPF worked the same on TSPF, I was quite happy to have additional features, e.g., regexen.
Unfortunately, TSPF is abandonware, else I would have bought updates, and ISPF has added things that TSPF doesn't have, and things that have different syntax, e.g., regexen. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Tom Brennan [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 1:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux I haven't used SPF/PC in many years, but I do remember it doing things that weren't possible via 3270, and those were sometimes a surprise. For example, I think I remember it automatically scrolling down text just by moving the cursor past the bottom of the screen. Can't do that on a real 3270 terminal. One of my many dead-end projects was a C program that would run in the background on Windows, listen on a port for your own TN3270 emulator, and then simulate the TN3720 connection processing and basic ISPF screens, editor, 3.4, etc. The idea was that you could use your favorite TN3270 emulator for the equivalent of SPF/PC, which would then eliminate the possibility of the SPF/PC surprises I mentioned. Then the same code could be recompiled easily on Linux, since there's no GUI code. Your own terminal emulator is the GUI. Maybe somebody else already thought of this idea and finished it, unlike lazy Tom. On 1/26/2021 10:12 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > I remember SPF/PC; they were never serious about ISPF compatibility, and I > bought TSPF instead. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
