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Subject: Quick question: Anybody remember the "alphabet soup" status line from WSF and RUMBA?
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 09:09:04 -0800
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Anybody here remember the "alphabet soup" status line, from WSF, RUMBA, and other early 5250 emulators?

Anybody remember what the indicators were? Particularly the one for insert mode? About all I can remember is that the keyboard lock indicator was "II," and the message indicator was "MW."

(To be fair, I spent roughly the past two decades trying to *forget* RUMBA.)

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JHHL

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