Re: Arrow keys in (I guess) PC5250

It just occurred to me that one reason for some of the peculiarities of PC5250 might relate to its origins - it is based on a general emulator product that works against mainframe (3270) terminals, ASCII terminals, and 5250 terminals. And maybe others - I don't have it in front of me right now. Things like the backspace key behave differently in different contexts, but PC-whatever needs to accommodate them all. Perhaps the Scroll Lock issue is similar in origin. So the best thing is to go to the keyboard maintenance window and go to the Help menu there, to see what you CAN do. For each key, you can set it to almost anything - and there is a drop-down list of those anythings. After that, if there is still an anomaly, call IBM under your support contract - this product is so mature, it is unlikely anyone here can make much difference.

Regards and Merry Christmas!
Vern

Porterfield, Sean wrote:

From: James H. H. Lampert

Paul Nelson wrote:

<<Also, I notice that backspace doesn't behave like a real terminal
backspace; can that be corrected?>>

Change it from backspace to left

But that isn't how a real terminal's backspace behaves: it *should* (1)
be non-destructive, and (2) move the cursor to the next *unprotected*
character position to the left.

I think you're looking for (from memory here, as I'm not near a Windows system) Character Backspace.
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