Re: tn5250 0.15.3 bugs

"Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@Baldwingroup.COM> wrote:
> >
> > My observations:
> >
> > 1)  Signed Fields don't work.   Negative numbers will function
> >     just fine, but positive numbers return invalid values every
> >     time!  This causes programs to crash with "decimal data
> >     errors."
>
> Hmm, will check; do you know if these are 'signed numeric' fields or
> 'number only' fields?  In one, there is a separate sign position whi
>  contains
> '-' or ' '; in the other, there is no sign position, but field minus
>  shifts
> the zone of the last digit (so that you will get one of '{JIKL...'

Yes, this is the signed numeric... the one that has its own
position for the '-' or ' ', as you put it.

> > 2)  It appears to "beep" randomly when displaying a screen.
> >     Some screens always beep, others don't, I can't find any
> >     rhyme or reason to it.  I haven't actually tried it on a
> >     screen thats SUPPOSED to beep... only on those that are not.
>
> I'm aware of this, but extraneous beeping isn't high on my list of b
>  fixes.
> Probably because I run stuff under screen, where I get a visual bell
>  instead
> of an actual beep (I'm starting to think that some people's 'screen
>  flicker'
> problems are related, but I'm not sure).

I'm just tellin' ya what I found...   :)


> > 3)  At "random times", I'm having lines "revert" in SEU.
> >     I'll try to make changes to a line of source code, while I'm
> >     typing the changes, everything shows up just fine.  When I
> >     hit enter, the source line reverts back to what it was before
> >     I changed it.  (VERY DANGEROUS!!)  Again, I haven't been able
> >     to find a pattern of when it does this, or why...
>
> I will look into this, but given the situation, I may not be able to
>  reproduce
> this.  Please email me a tracefile if you can.

I'll try.  Its very hard to determine when this will happen, and
when it won't... :)

> > 4)  The behavior of the END key has changed.   When I hit END it
> >     goes to the very last character in a field, rather than the
> >     last non-blank character.   This isn't necessarily "wrong",
> >     since I know many 5250-class terminals that work this way,
> >     however I really don't like this :)  It makes the end key
> >     completely useless to me.  The way it USED to be worked a
> >     whole lot better!
>
> Oops.  :(  Okay, will fix.
>
> >
> > 5)  I still am able to consistently get Assertion Failed errors,
> >     causing the emulator to core dump in UPDDTA, wasn't sure if
> >     you worked on this or not, as its an old problem that was
> >     previously reported, but I thought I'd let you know that its
> >     still a problem :)
>
> Nope, the assertion I just fixed would be unrelated.  Even just the
>  assertion
> message is helpful here, as it contains the line number on which the
>  asserton
> failed.  A trace would be _very_ helpful here.

Sigh... I sent you a tracefile on this back in the 0.13.x series,
if a new one would help, I'll be happy to send you another one...

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