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In article <9012012326.AA11156@lilac.berkeley.edu> Jay Maynard
        <lib!thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu@TMC.EDU> writes:
>In article <12720003@hpspdra.HP.COM> bc@hpspdra.HP.COM (Bill Crandall) writes:
>>You might try to reconfigure your host so that it doesn't send
>>a Write Structured Field.  Look in the hostgen.
>
>>Or check the Query Reply sent by your 3270 emulator to make sure
>>that it's not telling the host that it supports WSFs.  There's a bit
>>in the Query Reply that indicates that (although it might be
>>disguised as a "Reserved" bit -- make sure all "Reserved" bits
>>are turned off).
>
>We ran afoul of one other gotcha: Run a VTAM trace on the failing session.
>Look at the query reply, and make sure it isn't lying about its capabilities.
>If not, then your host program may be making invalid assumptions about the
>terminal's capabilities, and acting as though some unspecified capability
>is there when it wasn't mentioned in the query reply, just because none of
>the standard terminals acts that way.

We were able to get this working -- sort of.

We got ahold of a X-windows client that does full color and GDDM APA
graphics (which is really nice)... and now, all of a sudden, it works (then
again, this one understands WSF calls).

The Mitek gateway, though, won't do auto-selection of terminal types, so we
still have a problem.  It's not as serious as it was before.  Mitek says
they're going to have a fix for the multidrop problem by Tuesday of next
week.... if they do, and can provide automatic selection of terminal model
(with a default for vt100 terminal clients) then perhaps we can get things
resolved there as well.

Then again, maybe not.  Who really knows at this point.

I've been asked not to release the source of the X-windows client for this
yet, pending cleanup of the code and a real release.  I'm sure we'll see it
on the net eventually.

Btw:  It's is REAL good... I really do like it, even though it is a little
rough around the edges at this point.

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