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If a display file is designed properly for 132-column mode, it will fail gracefully, falling back to 80-column mode if the terminal rejects 132-column mode. Most modern 5250 terminals and emulators support 132-column mode. In the 3487 and 3488, however, there's a setup parameter to disable that mode, and so you shouldn't rely on simply recognizing the terminal type. That, by the way, is why QuestView has had a "splash screen" since about release 7.1 or 7.2: it was, at the time, the path of least resistance for sniffing out 3487s and 3488s that had 132-column mode disabled (usually 3488s hooked up to the cheapest monitors available). The other thing that helps with wide data is to design your application to page through the data horizontally as well as vertically, and/or to "fold" subfile records into two screen lines. -- James H. H. Lampert Professional Dilettante http://www.hb.quik.com/jamesl http://members.hostedscripts.com/antispam.html http://www.thehungersite.com Help America's Passenger Trains. http://www.saveamtrak.org Read My Lips: No More Atrocities!
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