The Copy and Paste varies greatly between emulators. It is not easy to implement because of the field oriented nature of the 3270 screen. Many emulators support paste in insert mode and must handle the data in the field properly. What if the field is not long enough? Do you push the data to the next field, clip it, or lock the keyboard with an error? What if the field is padded with spaces? Do you treat the spaces as nulls or do the spaces mean something when the modified screen is sent back to the host. If you push the data on paste, do you wrap it to the next field? If you wrap it, on cut do you unwrap it? If you paste in overwrite mode, but the pasted data is not as long as the remaining data do you leave the extra data or automatically erase to the end of the field?
Pcomm does some Copy/Paste functions very well, just differently from what a PC does or some other emulators, including the ones I am responsible for developing which handle paste in insert mode. You might check Pcomm's edit options to see if you can change the behavior. Steve Bireley Managing Director Research and Development Rocket Software 70 Main St., Suite 51 • Warrenton, VA 20186 • USA Tel: +1.404.364.1731 • Mobile: +1.571.216.3530 Email: sbire...@rocketsoftware.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com BlueZone and Passport Terminal Emulation BlueZone Secure FTP is FREE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
