Re: tn5250 0.15.3 bugs

"Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@Baldwingroup.COM> wrote:
> > Jason,  to reproduce the problem, do the following:
> >
> >     At a command line on the AS/400, type:
> >            SNDMSG MSG('hello big scary world') TOUSR(*REQUESTER)
> >
> >     Then, before hitting enter, move your cursor to the word "scar
> >     and press the delete key a few times to delete the word.  Then
> >     press ENTER...
> >
> >     You'll see that the word "scary" WILL be in the text.   This
> >     happens pretty consistently whenever you use the DELETE key.
>
> Weird, I can't duplicate that on either 0.14.0 or my current working
>  version (whihc is 0.15.3 plus some minor fixes). On the 0.15.x tree
>  we aren't storing duplicate data any longer, so that shouldn't be
>  possible.  Are you sure this isn't a problem with just BSD .. some
>  weird keyboard thing?  I check the code in 0.14.0 and I don't see
>  anything which might cause it.

No, I'm able to reproduce the problem with RedHat-6.1 as well as
FreeBSD...   However, I did discover that it doesn't do this right
away when you sign on!  It happens to me after I go into SEU once
(tho, there may be other ways to cause the same problem, I dont know)

Also, I'm using 0.15.3.  I have _NOT_ been able to reproduce this
problem in 0.14.0.   Repeat, 0.14.0 works fine.

Try this:
      Use STRSEU to edit a source member on your system (doesn't
      matter what it is)  then delete some text by placing the
      cursor in the middle of a line, and pressing the delete key
      a few times...
      Then press enter, and it reverts.

I'll send you a tracefile of this, as well...  just in case you
can't duplicate it (but that'll be in a seperate message, so that
the tracefile doesn't go out to the whole list)

> > Another (new?) problem:
> >
> > Type in and run this simple CL program:
> >
> > PGM
> >              DCL        VAR(&REPLY) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(1)
> >
> >              SNDUSRMSG MSG('ANSWER THIS MESSAGE WITH A C OR A G!')
> >                     VALUES(C G) MSGRPY(&REPLY)
> >
> >              DLYJOB     DLY(15)
> > ENDPGM
> >
> >
> > When you run the program you'll notice that after you've answered
>  the
> > message, the "II" indicator goes off.  (the keyboard is unlocked)
> > If you hit ENTER again during that 15 second delay, the emulator
> > core dumps with an "assertion failed".
> >
>
> Doesn't happen in my patched 0.15.3, but does happen in 0.14.0, whic
>  is funny, as I didn't think I fixed anything related to it :) I'm
>  going to have a 0.14.1 out soon which fixes some of the bugs which
>  have been accumulating.  (Hopefully tonight).

This (for me) happens in both 0.14.0, and 0.15.3.  Tho, I am using
the distribution of 0.15.3, I don't have your patches :)  And it does
happen in both RedHat and FreeBSD.

>
> Also, check out the really neat assertion when you do a system
>  request on the signon screen :)  I found that just recently.
>

Hmmm... I never noticed that one before...   (but who'd hit SysReq
on the signon screen?)  But, yes.. this crashes as well...

Thanks...

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