Ta6530 Emulation; Introduction; The Status Line - Neoware c50 - Thin Client User Manual

This chapter describes the Tandem 6530 terminal emulation.

Introduction

The emulation of the Tandem 6530 terminal is entered by displaying the Emulation
Settings dialog box from the Settings menu and setting the Alpha Emulation option
to TA6530. Click Ok to close the dialog box.
You must use the inbuilt telnet facility provided by TeemTalk to make a connection to
a remote host when using this mode. Refer to the Initiating A Telnet Session section in
the Getting Started chapter for details.
The TA6530 emulation is configured via the TA6530 Settings dialog box which is
described in the Setup Menus chapter.
Colour mapping of attributes (local and by host) and enhanced colour field support
for Block mode are supported.
The following sections describe the status line displayed at the bottom of the
window, the three main operating modes (Conversational, Block and ANSI), and the
mapping of functions on various keyboard layouts.

The Status Line

The last (25th) line in the window is used to display messages and status information.
You can enable or disable display of a border which separates this line from the rest
of the lines above it by setting the Status Border option in the TA6530 Settings
dialog box accordingly.
The status line is divided into two fields. The first and leftmost field is used to display
messages of up to 64 characters in length. The second field displays the current
operating status and will usually display at least one of the following status indica-
tors:

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