Pasting text into tn5250

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all

I've asked this before a while back, but would like to know if things are 
any different now: When I paste more than a line of text into tn5250 it 
acts as if the enter key was pressed after the first line goes in. The 
end result is usually one or two lines made up from the first & final 
lines copies :( Obviously I can do it a line at a time, but it gets a bit 
hairy copying a particularly convoluted SQL statement from one session to 
another, only for it to try and execute it before I've got to the last 
line...

I understand this is a _feature_ of xterm, rather than an oddity on 
tn5250's behalf, but is it possible to code a work around? I run vim in a 
term (aterm as it happens) and can paste big blocks of text quite 
happily, so I'm assuming it *can* be done somehow _ I just don't know how 
involved it would be. As an alternative would it be feasible to configure 
a key binding that read in the contents on the clipboard and inserted 
them at the cursor location?[1] I'd *love* to have rectangular selection 
a la Client Access - it's the only feature of that bloated monster that I 
miss.

[1] Keyboard selection of text would be even better if it could be 
achieved :-)
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Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and 
miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
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