Re: Here's a fix for the sysreq problem

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul,

As far as I know, you should be able to set up your keyboard map to use
Shift-Esc for SysReq...  I know that I currently have mine mapped so that
Shift-PrintScreen (which actually says "SysRq" on it) is SysReq.

The reason I don't feel that the little SysReq command line is important
is that all the functionality of SysReq is available without it.  My shop
is different than yours in that I don't like my users hitting SysReq-1 to
switch sessions.  Its much safer for a variety of reasons to simply have
them run two tn5250 sessions (or whatever software they're running) in 
seperate windows, than to use SysReq-1.

I agree that having the SysReq command line would be a convienience.  But
I'd rather see them fix the bugs in the emulator rather than add something
like this :)

By the way, how are you coming on that RPG Emacs mode? :)



On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Paul Cunnane wrote:
>      
> >Okay, this is what happens on my IBM 3179-2 terminal:
> >
> >1) I hit SysReq.. 
> >2) the terminal gives me a little line of underlines to type an option
> >   on.  (this was never implemented in tn5250, and IMHO isn't important)
> 
> I disagree.  Most users here, and in every AS/400 site I have worked in, have 
> gotten used to being able to quickly hit Shift-Esc, 1, Enter to switch to an 
> alternate session.  Not allowing the shortcut slows this process down 
> dramatically.  By the same token, Shift-Esc, 6, Enter is a wonderfully quick 
>way
> to check *SYSOPR messages, and so on.
> 
> Mild correction: it's not a line of underlines, it's an entry field with the 
> cyan colour attribute (ergo column-separated), 78 characters wide on line 24.
> 
> [note: Shift-Esc is the default Client Access key mapping for SysReq.  It's a 
> good one, because it's easy to do quickly.]
> 
> -- 
> Paul
> 

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