Re: Bug busting session next week.

On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 09:38:40AM -0700, Mike Madore wrote:
> Hi Carey,
> 
> Thanks for the list.  I'll try tackling as many of these as possible next
> week.  Just let me clarify a couple of things:
> 
> > DFU fields seem to be FER by default, so this is a good place to test
> > this.
> 
> What is FER?

Field Exit Required... it's a flag in the FFW (see field.c).  If you type in
the last cell of the field, the cursor changes to a squigly underline or a
caret-looking thing or something.  In that state, if you hit field exit, it
doesn't delete the last cell of the field when it exits the field as it would
if it wasn't a FER field and you did a field exit.  Hitting backspace leaves
FER state.  I'm not sure how other keys (especially AID keys) are supposed
to behave.

You can see that I've added a FER state flag in display.h, and that I handle
Field Exit/backspace differently when in FER state.  I haven't figured out
why my code isn't working, but it's probably something stupid.

(I can't remember now if I added a FER indicator... I think I did.)

>  
> > In addition, SNA itself is more of a datagram protocol, which the
> > tn5250 datastream emulates with GA.  It might be easier to deal with
> > this if tn5250 gets ported to SNA, if buffering is implemented now.
> 
> I assume you are talking about the lower layers?  
>  
> Mike
>
-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice 
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