Re: FER (Was: Bug busting session next week.)

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 03:32:54PM -0400, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:
> I have a couple of questions regarding the FER indicator.  Yesterday we had
> several instances where we had someone putting in admission information via
> 5250 (tn5250-15.7) when they would put in a phone number they hit tab to get
> to the next portion of the screen to put in additional information.  After
> entering the phone number they got the X and FER, it wouldn't go any
> further, they assumed the session was dead and well I guess I did too.    Am
> I to understand that at that point they need to hit field exit to advance?

Correct.  This might be somewhat counter-intuitive since Field Exit isn't the
enter key. (Might, ha!)

> 
> Also with 0.14.1 Field Exit seems to leave some characters around.  We had a
> number in one field, for example 514989, and after hitting field exit they
> were left with 0000009.

Lots of bugs fixed since 0.14.1.  I don't remember much specifically, but I
do recall putting a *lot* of effort into correcting bad behavior of Field
Exit, Field- and Field+.  I can safely say it was pretty fubar.

> 
> Is there an easily referenced place where I can find out what the various
> indicators on the bottom such as system,MW,FER and all the rest are
> explained?
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Brian Seppanen
> bseppanen@bellmemorial.org
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@shell.nacs.net>
> To: <LINUX5250@midrange.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 1:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Bug busting session next week.
> 
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:38:40AM -0700, Mike Madore wrote:
> > > Hi Carey,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the list.  I'll try tackling as many of these as possible
> next
> > > week.  Just let me clarify a couple of things:
> > >
> > > > DFU fields seem to be FER by default, so this is a good place to test
> > > > this.
> > >
> > > What is FER?
> >
> > Field Exit Required... it's a flag in the FFW (see field.c).  If you type
> in
> > the last cell of the field, the cursor changes to a squigly underline or a
> > caret-looking thing or something.  In that state, if you hit field exit,
> it
> > doesn't delete the last cell of the field when it exits the field as it
> would
> > if it wasn't a FER field and you did a field exit.  Hitting backspace
> leaves
> > FER state.  I'm not sure how other keys (especially AID keys) are supposed
> > to behave.
> >
> > You can see that I've added a FER state flag in display.h, and that I
> handle
> > Field Exit/backspace differently when in FER state.  I haven't figured out
> > why my code isn't working, but it's probably something stupid.
> >
> > (I can't remember now if I added a FER indicator... I think I did.)
> >
> > >
> > > > In addition, SNA itself is more of a datagram protocol, which the
> > > > tn5250 datastream emulates with GA.  It might be easier to deal with
> > > > this if tn5250 gets ported to SNA, if buffering is implemented now.
> > >
> > > I assume you are talking about the lower layers?
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > -Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
+---
| This is the LINUX5250 Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to LINUX5250@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to LINUX5250-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to LINUX5250-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---