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The Status Line
The last line on the PT250 emulation screen is used to display a
status line that shows the status of various operations.
1
2
3
4
Field 1: Displays either
the emulation is online to the host or in local mode.
Field 2: Indicates whether the input line from the main port is
connected.
DSR
will be displayed when the Data Set Ready (DSR)
connection is active.
Pressing the Stop key to stop the host from transmitting
data will cause this field to display
When this field is blank, the connection is inactive.
Field 3: Indicates the mode of data transmission as follows:
CHAR
indicates that the emulation is in Character mode in
which each character is sent to the host when it is typed at
the keyboard.
CNTRL
indicates that the emulation is in Control Represen-
tation mode in which all received data and commands
from the host or keyboard are displayed but not acted
upon.
LINE
PAGE
or
line or a page at a time when the Enter key is pressed in
Block mode.
Field 4: Indicates how many pages are in the display memory,
2
.
Field 5: Indicates when in Block mode the type of data that is to be
transmitted, as determined by the application.
5
6
7
ONLINE
LOCAL
or
indicates that the emulation transmits data a
PT250 Emulation
8
9
10 11
, depending on whether
XOFF
.
1
The Status Line
or
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