There are still people selling converged keyboards. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר
________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Rick Troth <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 8, 2025 11:18 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Any recommendations for a Linux 3270 emulator? External Message: Use Caution On 9/8/25 10:39 AM, Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. wrote: > Thanks. > > Toying now with X3270 on Windows just to get the feel of it. > > The only thing I see missing is having the common PF/PA and misc. 3270 keys > on the menu bar, rather than in a separate pop-up window. But otherwise, > works as expected. Yeah, I don't like the pop-up function keys either. This is one reason I cling to my X3270 key mapping file. I really need PF keys to match F keys on the keyboard. (All contemporary keyboards have twelve of them.) I also map Alt-1 to PA1 and Alt-2 to PA2. On VM, I need both of those. Historically (from the ASCII world) Ctrl-L is clear screen. For ASCII printing devices, it literally means "form feed" or "page eject". So I map Ctrl-L to 3270 Clear. CAN'T STAND that separate window! > Onward out the Window I go! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- -- R; <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
