Number Only Fields

["Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, I installed mocha 5250, and had to upgrade java and do weird things to
get it to run under Linux.  I've got my little test CL/DDS to try out the 
Field- issue.  I have to make a few notes:

1) Mocha 5250 doesn't right justify the field when you use field exit or
   field-
2) If you right justify the numbers yourself, then issue a field-, Mocha 5250
   changes the last position to a '}' (which would be a zero on the end of a
   negative number).  It doesn't matter what the number was before hand.
3) If you press enter on this, Mocha 5250 sends a ridiculously huge data packet
   back to the host, and the host complains that your variable isn't large
   enough to hold the value.

The result is that I still can't figure out what to do in this undocumented
case.  I'm posting this info here because it's rather refreshing (in a rather
sinister way) that other emulators have strange problems as well ;->

So I'm still working on this *sigh*.  I'm going to have to find some creative
way to get in the middle of an actual Client Access session unless someone else
knows of an emulator (preferrably one that runs under Linux - like Java based
or something) where you can enter a negative number into a 'Number Only' field.
(Number Only is the only numeric field type that accepts decimal points).

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice

P.S.  I've made a few fixes to how the emulator handles System/36-type display
streams (I've found a strange difference between System/36 and 400 in this
regard).  I'd like to finally nail the Number Only field issue this issue and
we'll have another release.

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