Cursor Location Information - IBM 5291 Operator's Manual

Page of G~21-9409-0
Issued 27 December 1982
By TNL: GN21-0366
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Cursor Location Information
The status line of the 5291 Display Station provides information that describes
the. screen row and column location of the cursor. The illustration below shows
where this information appears:
Cursor Location
(row and column)
XX-XX.
The cursor location is displayed on the status line as a four-digit number
separated by a dash (the first two digits represent the row that the cursor is in
and the second two digits represent the column). The display screen contains
24 rows (lines) of data with a maximum of 80 columns (characters) per row.
The following illustration shows how the display screen is divided into rows
and columns:
~----T-----:r-----:--
1 I I
I I I
Row1-----4"+--~------,------~------+------
1 I I
I I I
I I I
Row 6
------r--------1-------~------
t I
I I
I I
I I
I •
Column Column
20 4_0
Row 2 4 - - - - - -
Cursor Location
For example, the cursor in the illustration is in row 6 and column 60. This
would be displayed on your status line as 06-60.
Cursor