Re: FW: Re: 5250 Data Stream Operation Codes

"Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@Baldwingroup.COM> writes:

[snip]

> > Speaking of Saving and restoring the screen, did you or Mike Madore ever
> > redesign tn5250 to not use local buffers, and instead send the necessary 
>info
> > to the host to redraw the screen?
> 
> Out of curiosity, why would we do that?

Because if tn5250 crashes, and you reconnect and resume the session,
the local buffers won't be there any more.  And if you signoff a
session when it's got some screens saved, you get a memory leak since
the saved screen is never used.

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         Carey Evans  http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/

               "This is where your sanity gives in..."
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