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  • Subject: Re: EBCDIC <-> ASCII translation tables
  • From: Dave McKenzie <davemck@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 14:57:33 -0700

A couple of months ago I emailed the patch below to Mike & he said he'd look it
over when he got a chance, but I guess
TurboLinux is keeping him *really* busy :-)

The patch is for 0.17.1 but 0.16.0pre2 appears to have the same bugs.


This patch is for the following bugs in TN5250:

  1. In DFU, the cursor positions to the Format field (1st input-capable
field), instead of the RECNBR field.
  2. In DFU (or any field-exit-required field), when FieldExit is
pressed, the last character is removed.
  3. Minor misspelling in curses_terminal_getkey().

The DFU cursor problem occurs because DFU sends the screen in 3 WTD
commands (using TN5250_RECORD_OPCODE_OUTPUT_ONLY).  The 1st WTD has an
IC order (to the RECNBR field) but the keyboard isn't unlocked til the
3rd WTD.  The old code was setting the cursor on each WTD (when the
keyboard is locked).  The new code sets it only on a "Lock-to-Unlock
transition", as mentioned in RFC 1205 section 5.2.

However, the cursor fix caused cursor-positioning to break when the
screen is restored after switching to a new job with System Request
option 1, or to a group job with the Attention key.  It appears that
neither the Restore Screen opcode nor the Restore Screen command are
sent by the system unless you put a Restore Screen command (x'12') in
the screen you send to the system on Save Screen, so I put one in (in
tn5250_wtd_context_convert_nosrc()).  This allows
tn5250_write_to_display() to check for TN5250_RECORD_OPCODE_RESTORE_SCR.

--Dave

Here's the patch:

Index: cursesterm.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /tn5250/tn5250/src/cursesterm.c,v
retrieving revision 1.28
diff -r1.28 cursesterm.c
1056c1056
<       TN5250_LOG(("curses_getch: recevied 0x%02X.\n", ch));
---
>       TN5250_LOG(("curses_getch: received 0x%02X.\n", ch));
Index: display.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /tn5250/tn5250/src/display.c,v
retrieving revision 1.36
diff -r1.36 display.c
532c532
<    if (This->pending_insert)
---
>   if (This->pending_insert) {
534c534,535
<    else {
---
>       This->pending_insert = 0;
>    } else {
872a874,875
>    int pre_FER_clear = 0;
>
900c903
<   tn5250_display_indicator_clear (This, TN5250_DISPLAY_IND_FER);
---
>   pre_FER_clear = 1;
1022a1026,1028
>    }
>    if (pre_FER_clear) {
>   tn5250_display_indicator_clear (This, TN5250_DISPLAY_IND_FER);
Index: session.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /tn5250/tn5250/src/session.c,v
retrieving revision 1.51
diff -r1.51 session.c
534c534
<    tn5250_display_clear_pending_insert (This->display);
---
>
579d578
<   tn5250_session_clear_unit(This);
758a758,759
>    int will_be_unlocked;
>    int cur_opcode;
850a852,854
>    will_be_unlocked = ((CC2 & TN5250_SESSION_CTL_UNLOCK) != 0);
>    cur_opcode = tn5250_record_opcode(This->record);
>
853c857,858
<    else if(is_x_system) {
---
>    else if((is_x_system && will_be_unlocked) ||
>            cur_opcode == TN5250_RECORD_OPCODE_RESTORE_SCR) {
Index: wtd.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /tn5250/tn5250/src/wtd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -r1.10 wtd.c
148a149,151
>    tn5250_wtd_context_putc (This, ESC);
>    tn5250_wtd_context_putc (This, CMD_RESTORE_SCREEN);
>



Jason Felice wrote:
<snip>

> Side note: Last call for bugs in 0.16.0pre1 - (yes, I've been ignoring
> the list a little
> lately - it's this work thing *sigh* - I don't think I missed any bugs,
> tho).  If I'm being
> a dunce and there are bugs, let me know - I'd like to wrap up 0.16.0
> next week.

<snip>


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