John asks:

> How do I get QCT to handle Block Line mode? It seems to be skipping fields
>  when I do Escd, Read to transfer data....

Let me apologize for not answering your first set of questions. I apparently
mistook them to be more rhetorical than real.

Nevertheless, to answer your most basic questions, if I understand you
correctly, you are building a new application using block/line mode. The first step
is to insure that your new code works against a *real* HP 700/92 terminal
first. If it works there, but not with QCTerm, then QCTerm has a bug in it --
which we'll be more than pleased to correct.

Block/line mode is rarely used, thus I can't say with absolute certainty that
QCTerm is completely free of errors in that regard. What I can say is that
block/page mode is much more commonly used and that we haven't had a bug report
in over a year when people are using QCTerm.

Please note that we don't completely trust Reflection as a standard measure.
It has its own screwinesses too. We consider an HP terminal to be the gold
standard and Reflection to only be the bronze (there is no silver).

Complete your design first using a standard terminal. Once you have an HP
terminal working to your satisfaction -- and find that QCTerm doesn't work the
same way -- please contact us. However, please be advised that in order for us
to debug problems with block mode, we've found that we need to be able to
telnet into at least a dummy account that will reliably create the problem you're
reporting. We've found that the interactivity that an live account provides us
to be essential in understanding whatever might be wrong. You just can't debug
something as complex as block mode on theoretical grounds alone.

Wirt Atmar

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