Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

2022-11-20 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 21/11/2022 3:52 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: That's likely not to work because lines might be separated and indented not by CRLF and leading spaces but by cursor addressing commands which are not meaningful when pasted into a text document. By the time the screen is displayed the 3270 command

Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

2022-11-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 16:57:25 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Do you mean curses commands or HTML markup as opposed to 3270 buffer orders? > Any of those. Most likely ANSI terminal cursor positioning commands. Any of those interfere with copying a screen image to a document, replicating a reported

Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

2022-11-20 Thread Seymour J Metz
...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2022 11:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... ) On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 03:54:33 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Or they support the c&p conventions of the desktop they run on and

Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

2022-11-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 03:54:33 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Or they support the c&p conventions of the desktop they run on and assdume >that the user already knows those. > That's likely not to work because lines might be separated and indented not by CRLF and leading spaces but by cursor addres

Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

2022-11-19 Thread Seymour J Metz
Paul Gilmartin [042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2022 10:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... ) On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 18:00:25 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote: >The 3270 emulators that I ha

Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

2022-11-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 18:00:25 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote: >The 3270 emulators that I have used, Vista, QWS3270 and HOD all >allow copy and paste operations for capturing the screen or >laying code/data onto a screen. > Interestingly, ironically, there are no examples of such captures on the websit

Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

2022-11-19 Thread Steve Thompson
The 3270 emulators that I have used, Vista, QWS3270 and HOD all allow copy and paste operations for capturing the screen or laying code/data onto a screen. I have used HOD, also, with its copy as table function to populate spreadsheets. And I too do documentation using copy/paste from the ab

Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

2022-11-19 Thread Bob Bridges
If you need to do a lot of it, I don't know anything about TNZ but most emulators have a built-in programming facility that will allow you to do very fast screen-scraping. I'm guessing most people don't use that feature, because the documentation for the language (whichever it is for each emula

Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

2022-11-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 08:13:30 -0600, Kirk Wolf wrote: >Cutting text from x3270 works fine. >You can also do File/Screen Save to text / html / RichText or printer > Thanks. I know it; it's nice. Alas, not very popular. Perhaps not enough lipstick on the pig to please MVS power users. Or resent

Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

2022-11-19 Thread Roger Bolan
IBM PCOMM can capture screens as text On Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 7:14 AM Kirk Wolf wrote: > Cutting text from x3270 works fine. > You can also do File/Screen Save to text / html / RichText or printer > > Kirk Wolf > Dovetailed Technologies, LLC > http://coztoolkit.com > Dovetailed Technologies: +1 6

Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

2022-11-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
Cutting text from x3270 works fine. You can also do File/Screen Save to text / html / RichText or printer Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC http://coztoolkit.com Dovetailed Technologies: +1 636.300.0901 Note: Our website and domain name have changed from dovetail.com to coztoolkit.com On

Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

2022-11-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 08:57:04 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >On 19/11/22 02:12, René Jansen wrote: >> RMFIII is my main use case. > >If it's graphics that you seek, RMF has been modernized to export to >Prometheus/Grafana. > Contrariwise, at times I have wished to be able to capture a screen as text