Re: [sentam@mckmetals.com.au: 5250]

[Phil Gregory <pgregory@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:48:13AM +1000, Sen Ho Tam wrote:
> 1.  It does not run on full screen, when I select full screen mode, the 
> actual green screen stays on the top-left corner, is there a way to compile 
> it run on higher resolution? say 124X768?

tn5250 is a curses (text mode) application.  It only runs at certain
discrete sizes.  You sound like you're running it in an xterm (via
xt5250), so it is possible to change the font size.  While xt5250 is
running, hold down the control key and right click in the xt5250 window.
Select one of the sizes from the menu that appears.  Even the largest
isn't big enough to be full screen in 1024x768, but it should help.

> 2.  How can we do a screen dump?  In AS400, very often people do a screen 
> dump to the printer.

I don't see anything obvious after a quick glance through the key handling
code, so it doesn't look like tn5250 supports this feature yet.  It looks
like one of the menu items for xterm will do a screen print, however.
Hold down the control key and click the left mouse button, then pick the
"Print WIndow" item off then meny that appears.  You will need to have
your printing already set up in order for this to work.  (I don't, so I
can't test it.)
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