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Appendix B. Setting up Your Terminal
Using Scrolling
This appendix discusses the advantage of using your terminal's scrolling ability and
shows you the switch settings that you should use for your terminals.
Using your terminal's scrolling ability makes the logon screens much more readable.
When you set scrolling on, a new line displays on the bottom line of the screen and
the previous line moves up one. Later, if you use your terminal in full-screen mode,
this function may be unavailable. When you operate in full-screen mode, your
terminal must not perform an auto linefeed or auto newline function - this means
that when a character is displayed in the last column of a line, the terminal should
not automatically position the cursor at the beginning of the next line.
Some terminals provide separate settings to control scrolling and the auto linefeed
functions; others merge the two into one function. If your device has separate
settings, turn. the auto linefeed function off and the scrolling function on. For
example, for the IBM 3101, setting the following switches enables scrolling during
logon, and disables the auto newline function:
Function
AUTONL
AUTO LF
SCROLL
Switch Setting
off
off
on
Similarly, the setting for the IBM 3151, 3161, 3162, 3163, and 3164 follows:
Function
AUTO LF
SCROLL
Switch Setting
off
jump or smooth
If your device does not have separate settings, and if you plan to use full-screen
mode later, set the terminal for AUTO NL off or SCROLL off. Your 3708 logon
screens will wrap from the bottom line of the screen to the top.
Setting Your Terminal's Switches
The remainder of this appendix shows you the switch settings to use for your type of
terminal. Your terminal should be set with these values when attached to the 3708.
For some terminal types, these switch settings are actual switches on the device. For
others, the switch settings are values that are set from the keyboard using a setup or
configuration mode of the terminal.
Appendix B. Setting up Your Terminal
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