In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/08/2008
at 02:18 PM, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I suspect a) that the original devices with this TEXT keyboard had a
>special shift key or something that would allow input of these graphical
>drawing characters, b) that this function predated the advent of the
>graphics escape character set, and c) that the drawing characters
>appeared correctly without translation on those devices.
As I recall, there was an Alt key but not all displayable characters could
be entered from the keyboard. I'm pretty sure that there was no GE on the
3275 or 3277.
>Presumably, ISPF translates for graphics-escape-capable emulators to
>provide end-user-apparent compatibility for text-based graphics built
>using those devices.
Not just drawing; brackets require GE sequences.
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