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IBM 3179 Manual page 6

Color display station

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Marking
Name of Key
Function
on Key
2
Alt
Alternate Shift
Activates function on front face of keys. Not all keys have an alternate function.
AltCr
Alternate Cursor
Selects between two forms of the cursor.
Attn
Attention
Requests attention of the system (only if § is displayed in position 2 below the blue line).
Clear
Clear
Erases screen and signals system that clear action occurred.
CrBnk
Cursor Blink
Causes a nonblinking cursor to blink, and a blinking cursor to stop blinking.
Cursr
Cursor Select
Selects fields for processing. Cursor must be in a field that your application has designated for
Sel
cursor selection.
Dup
Duplicate
Causes prior entry for this field to be duplicated. Displays
*"
or
*
and moves cursor forward
to first position of next input field.
DvCnl
Device Cancel
Cancels a pending request by the Print key to a printer that is busy and restores the keyboard.
If the printer is not working, it restores the keyboard and resets
~,
if displayed.

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