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The help key is a special key on a 5250 keyboard.  Older programs that predate
the SAA standards often haven't been modified to use F1 or the help key for
help.  It's a one-line change to a screen DDS.  F1 was designated as help so 
that
applications written for other platforms that don't have help keys (like PC's,
3270, etc.) could have one.

Chuck Landress



Sean Porterfield wrote:

> How do I send the help key?  man tn5250 says help is M-h, but I can't
> figure it out.  Isn't M for Meta the same as Alt?  I tried Ctrl-Alt-h,
> Alt-h, Ctrl-h, Shift with each of those...
>
> I'll never understand why programs don't all use F1 for help!  (The
> AS/400 programs underneath, not tn5250)
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