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04-13-2005

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A Terminal Dilemma

Hi everyone, I hope this is the right place to ask this question...

I have a contract to convert a mainframe/DB2 application to using AIX/Oracle. Everything went fine but we are now running into a terminal problem. With the Mainframe app, the clients had great response time from remote locations. With the unix app, the response time is horrible. This seems to be because the mainframe application only sent data on tabs and returns. We need to be able to get our unix application to do this. I have been looking into this for some time and came up with a telnet LINEMODE option. The only problem is that it seems to be hard to find a client that supports this and still supports the ability for the client to position the cursor with the mouse (which is another requirement). Currently we are using PCOMM but can't get it to support this linemode option. I've tried putty which only supports sending on a return and not a tab, so I changed the code to have it send on tabs as well, but it doesn't support the ability to click on a field to position the mouse.

Could anyone offer me some advice here? Maybe some telnet clients that you might know of would be great!

Thanks,
-- Rocky

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xmtablistreplacepositions

XmTabListReplacePositions(library call) 								   XmTabListReplacePositions(library call)

NAME

       XmTabListReplacePositions -- A convenience function that creates a new tab list with replacement tabs

SYNOPSIS

       #include <Xm/Xm.h>
       XmTabList XmTabListReplacePositions(
       XmTabList oldlist,
       Cardinal *position_list,
       XmTab *tabs,
       Cardinal tab_count);

DESCRIPTION

       XmTabListReplacePositions creates a new tab list that contains the contents of oldlist, but with the tabs at the positions in position_list
       replaced with copies of the corresponding tabs in tabs.	A warning message is displayed if a specified position is invalid; for example, if
       the value is a number greater than the number of tabs in the tab list.

       This  function  deallocates  the original tab list after extracting the required information. It is the caller's responsibility to free the
       tabs in tabs by using the XmTabFree function.

       oldlist	 Specifies the tab list.  The function deallocates the tab list after extracting the required information.

       position_list
		 Specifies an array of positions of the tabs to be replaced. The position of the first tab is 0 (zero), the position of the second
		 tab is 1, and so on.

       tabs	 Specifies an array of the replacement tabs.

       tab_count Specifies the number of elements in position_list and tabs.

RETURN

       If  tabs,  oldlist, or position_list is NULL, or tab_count is 0 (zero), returns oldlist. Otherwise, this function returns the new tab list.
       The function allocates space to hold the returned tab list.  The application is responsible for managing the allocated space.  The applica-
       tion can recover the allocated space by calling XmTabListFree.

RELATED

       XmTabList(3).

													   XmTabListReplacePositions(library call)