Wow. I had forgotten about Paste-by-typing! IIRC Tom created that function years ago at my request to handle some long since abandoned IBM problem management app. Until now I never had a reason to revisit the function.
In my estimation, most of Vista's special copy/paste functions cannot be found represented in ANY other emulator. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 3:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Extraneous blanks in SDSF issued command *** EXTERNAL EMAIL - Use caution when opening links or attachments *** Yes, I use Paste-by-Typing on that panel and it works as desired. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 3:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Extraneous blanks in SDSF issued command I purposely don't say Vista emulates any particular real terminal, and there's no option to specify you want to look like a 3278 vs. a 3279 or whatever. That helps keep me out of trouble when it comes to details like this :) But in addition, I took some poetic-license with certain things that bothered me about a real terminal. For example, I seem to remember some programs that would initially fill an input area with nulls, and if you moved the cursor out to the right and started typing, the host would remove the nulls abd scoot your typing to the left. Not what I wanted, so there's a Vista option (on by default) that replaces those nulls to the left with real spaces. I don't think that's involved with this problem though. There's another option to convert nulls to blanks when sending them to the host (off by default), in case anybody needs that. But that causes enough trouble that when you try to set that option in Vista, you get a warning window telling you that you probably don't want to do that. I need to find Skip's original post and see if I can reproduce the error and perhaps understand it a bit better, or at least see if it could be an emulator issue or not. I typically use an old PCOMM version I have to determine what a real terminal would do, since I'll probably never see another real one except at a museum. My theory was the old PCOMM was programmed using logic obtained directly from the ROM in a real terminal, maybe even ported. So I would expect PCOMM to be the gold-standard when any questions come up. If that SDSF screen is the one I'm thinking of, it's a couple of separate fields with a jump to the second line. If you have a long command in your clipboard, you might try the PasteByTyping function which simulates typing each character and does the jump. Menu: Edit/Paste-Functions/Paste-By-Typing. But yeah, it might be a stretch to expect an emulator to do inserts and deletes as if it was one line. Oops... Sorry. Long post. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
