Re: FER (Was: Bug busting session next week.) -- LINUX5250

I have a couple of questions regarding the FER indicator.  Yesterday we had
several instances where we had someone putting in admission information via
5250 (tn5250-15.7) when they would put in a phone number they hit tab to get
to the next portion of the screen to put in additional information.  After
entering the phone number they got the X and FER, it wouldn't go any
further, they assumed the session was dead and well I guess I did too.    Am
I to understand that at that point they need to hit field exit to advance?

Also with 0.14.1 Field Exit seems to leave some characters around.  We had a
number in one field, for example 514989, and after hitting field exit they
were left with 0000009.

Is there an easily referenced place where I can find out what the various
indicators on the bottom such as system,MW,FER and all the rest are
explained?

Thanks again,

Brian Seppanen
bseppanen@bellmemorial.org



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@shell.nacs.net>
To: <LINUX5250@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 1:39 PM
Subject: 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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