Noticed that MPEX's %WARNF also overwrites the
function keys also in QCTerm.

However I also noticed this only works once.

Pressing carriage-return (a.k.a. Enter) does not
bring the function keys back.

Pressing f9/f10/f11 to force the appearance of
function keys will do so, but %WARNF will not
overwrite the function keys a second time (in
the same window.)

(This was tested on the Dec 1999 release of QCTerm.)

Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors


-----Original Message-----
From: Tracy Pierce [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 11:46 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Tell command


If you have MPEX, just use %WARNF.  This requires a 2392 or better terminal
(or emulation), which acts upon the escape sequence esc&<stringlen>L<string>
by replacing the function key display with a 2-line message, which is
cleared by the user by hitting Return.  The escape gets stripped from a TELL
message, but works with WARN, so MPEX is not really needed at all.

Tracy Pierce

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curt Brimacomb [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 9:35 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Tell command
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have a programmer here that wants to use the tell command to send a
> message back to a specific user saying that a job stream had finished.
> Problem is that the user program is using vplus and the tell
> command can not
> get thru.
>
> Is there a way to have the tell command "break thru" vplus
> and delivery the
> message?  Or is the tell command the wrong way to do it (need
> to use warn or
> some other command or intrinsic)?
>
> TIA
>
> Curt Brimacomb
> Systems Manager
> Idaho Computer Services, LLC
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> 208-734-2245 x 114
> The opinions expressed here are not mine or my employers.
>