RE: emulaton problem

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Just the blinking attribute, some of them I have set with an indicator
> for  testing purposes, but the one I'm working with right now is just
> set to Y  with SDA, in the dds it has DSPATR(BL) but it only shows up as
> red, no  blinking at all.

OH! That's easy, and your emulator is behaving exactly as a color terminal
would behave.

Standard 5250 color attributes, when they were added, were mapped into the
highlight, blink, and column-separator bits of the already existing
monochrome attributes:
Green was mapped into all attributes with neither the highlight, blink, or
column-separator bits set.
White was mapped into all attributes with the highlight bit set, but not
the blink or column-separator bits.
Red was mapped into all attributes with the blink bit set, but not the
highlight or column-sep.
Blinking Red was mapped into all attributes with the blink and highlight
bits set, but not column-sep.
Cyan ("turquoise" in most docs) was mapped into all attributes with the
column-sep set, but not blink or highlight.
Yellow was mapped into all attributes with the column-sep and highlight
set, but not the blink.
Pink was mapped into all attributes with the column-sep and blink set, but
not the highlight.
Blue was mapped into all attributes with all three bits set.

When the InfoWindow II series of terminals was introduced, it became
possible to have attributes that don't take up screen positions, and to
control color independently of highlight, blink, and column seps, but
these capabilities were never adequately documented or supported. These
terminals also have a configuration setting to allow column separators to
be turned off completely, and some can also completely remap the screen
colors.

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JHHL