Re: Fonts Part 2

On Monday 02 July 2001 16:26, Scott Klement wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, I wrote:
<snipped>
> > One thing you *could* [:)] look at though is the Help key binding. This
> > is listed as ^H in the man page, but has disappeared from tn5250 at some
> > point. We've a number of screens that don't use F1 as Alt-Help, so I
> > can't get to application help or message subfiles[2] on them at present.
>
> It's never been Ctrl-H!  Ctrl-H is the ASCII standard for "backspace" (not
> to be confused with the left-arrow key).    Help Esc-H.  And appears to
> work for me, at least...

My mistake - just read it wrong. As it happens, I can't do a Esc-H (get Attn 
first :) ) and a Ctrl-g h does nothing (other than typing in an 'h').

> > Oh, kudos to whoever added Esc as Attn in /usr/local/tn5250/XTerm - I
> > don't know how long it's been there, as I got so used to ^A instead[3].
> > At least it'll make the occasional use of CA less confusing. I only
> > noticed when I dozily tried to exit SEU with Esc:wq ;-) Maybe I should
> > just dump SEU and use Vim permanently...
>
> That was me... (along with a lot of other changes to
> /usr/local/tn5250/XTerm). Glad you like them.  FWIW, You should be able to
> use Scroll Lock as help, as well.

Sorted ... my hero ;-)

> > [1] Can anyone recommend a good book explaining C to a novice? I don't
> > think I'm likely to learn it anytime soon (starting off with Python), but
> > I would like to understand it enough to follow what most of the code is
> > doing.
>
> I'd like to help with this, but I don't actually remember how I learned C,
> I'm sure I picked the hardest possible way, though :)

I have a feeling whichever way I go will be the hardest ;-) In my case I *do* 
remember learning RPG, back on the S/38, with virtually no computing 
background :( Learning a language doesn't look quite as daunting now, though 
the luxury of lots of free time to do it in would be nice :)

Regards, Martin  
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martin@dbg400.net / jamaro@firstlinux.net
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Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and 
miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
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