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From: eric@SEJNET.SUNET.SE ("Eric Thomas,
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Subject: Re: 3270 tubes aren't that bad...
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Date: 5 Nov 90 21:54:04 GMT
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One of the really nice properties of 327x is that the application developer
does not have access to keys like TAB, DELETE WORD, NEW LINE, etc. This means
that it is impossible for each and every PC hacker to try to impose his
religious perception of what these keys ought to do to the poor end-user;
in other words, I never need to worry about what will happen when I hit the
INSERT MODE or ERASE EOF key, in fact I know that the application does not have
any way to know how I moved from the screen it presented me with to the final
screen it will retrieve from the terminal when I hit the ENTER key. This also
means that these functions will be available regardless of the laziness of the
application developer, but after having used multiple PC packages for several
months in a university the thing that really drove me crazy was the way you
could never know what a given key would do in a particular package unless you
are familiar with that package...

  Eric