IBM 3270 Emulation

Typing Direction

=> or <= This indicates the direction in which characters are displayed on the screen when typed. The direction is toggled between left-to- right (normal) and right-to-left by pressing the keys Shift + / on the keypad.

Bilingual Keyboard Mode

N or L

This indicates whether the National (N) or Latin (L) character

 

set is active when a code page that supports a bilingual keyboard

 

is selected. Pressing the keys Shift + - on the keypad will toggle

 

between the two character sets.

Shift

NUM

This indicates that the numeric lock function is enabled and the

 

current cursor is in a numeric field. When the numeric lock

 

function is on, the current cursor is in an unprotected field and

 

the keyboard is in lowercase shift, you can only use the 0 to 9,

 

decimal sign (.), minus (-), and Dup keys.

Mode Symbol

^This symbol indicates that the keyboard is in Insert mode. Al- ready existing characters to the right of the cursor will move to make room for new characters that are entered. Insert mode can be disabled by pressing the Reset or SysReq key, or by per- forming any action that sends data to the host, such as pressing the Enter, Clear, PA, or PF keys.

Display Direction

or

 

This indicates the orientation of the screen display. A right

 

 

 

arrow indicates normal left-to-right display, a left arrow indi-

 

 

cates a right-to-left mirror image display. The display can be

 

 

toggled between the two directions by pressing the keys Shift +

 

 

Backspace.

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