On 11/8/22 9:35 AM, Patrik Schindler wrote:
LOL! Realistic compared to… what? :-)
The most realistic depiction of a real 5250 terminal (InfoWindow,
InfoWindow II, or a 3180), compared to what PCS/WSF and Wall Data's
RUMBA were doing.
I had a thought, and rather remarkably, it didn't die of loneliness,
that even though most of the hardcopy manuals that old have been
discarded, I do still have CD-ROMs going back to V2R2.
And I found a V2R2 PCS manual!
The complete canonical alphabet soup, according to the V2R2 PCS manual:
System Available: "SA" (a rectangular block on an InfoWindow; either
that or an icon of a terminal in most modern emulators)
Graphics: "G" (never seen it)
Compressed aspect ratio: "C" (never seen it)
Message Waiting: "MW" (an icon on an InfoWindow or most modern emulators)
Special character: "+" (I think that's the same as it is on an InfoWindow).
Keyboard Shift: "KS" (on an InfoWindow, an iconic up-arrow for shift,
and an "A" for caps lock)
Insert Mode: "IM" (on an InfoWindow or a modern emulator, a caret)
Diacritic Mode: "DM"
Input Inhibited (i.e., keyboard lock): "II" (a big "X" on an InfoWindow
or a modern emulator)
Auto-Dim: "D" when dimmed (a dimmed InfoWindow shows a generic currency
symbol when dimmed)
Keystroke Buffering: "KB" when keystrokes are in the buffer (an
InfoWindow shows ">>" if buffering is *enabled*)
Pause State: "PS" (never seen it)
Graphics Mode: "GM" (never seen it)
Local Select Mode: "SM" (never seen it)
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JHHL
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