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IBM 5250 Emulation
322 The Status Line
The Status Line
The last line of the IBM 5250 screen is used to display status infor-
mation in the form of symbols and alphanumeric characters.
Operating Mode &
Communication
Indicates that a Telnet session is running.
Indicates that the current screen is an IBM 5250 screen.
This screen will be displayed when you have initiated a
Telnet session with the host.
Indicates that the system has one or more messages
waiting for you.
Do Not Enter
Indicates when input from the keyboard or mouse will
not be accepted by the host. When this is because an
error has occured, as shown in the error line, pressing
the Reset key will remove the error. Alternatively, more information
can be obtained by pressing the Help key. The only other keys avail-
able are Attn , SysReq and Print . Note that the emulation includes
typeahead capability so that in most cases you can continue to enter
data without waiting for the Do Not Enter message to clear as the
data will be stored until the host is ready.
Typing Direction
Indicates the direction in which characters are dis-
played on the screen when typed. The direction is tog-
gled between left-to-right (normal) and right-to-left by
pressing the keys
Shift + / on the keypad.
Bilingual Keyboard
Mode
Indicates whether the National ( N ) or Latin ( L ) charac-
ter set is active when a code page that supports a bilin-
gual keyboard is selected. Pressing the keys
Shift + -
on the keypad will toggle between the two character
sets.