User`s guide

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Position in the Host session presentation space is determined by starting in the upper left corner of the
screen display (row 1, column 1). At the end of each screen display row, the next Host session
presentation space position is column 1 of the following screen display row. This process continues
until the end of the Host session presentation space (screen display) is reached.
This function is affected by the session options EAB/NOEAB, ATTRB/NOATTRB,
DISPLAY/NODISPLAY, and XLATE/NOXLATE. See Set Session Parameters (function 9) for details.
These session options have the following effect:
Session Option Effect on this Function
NOATTRB Unknown values are translated into spaces.
ATTRB Unknown values are copied untranslated.
NOEAB Extended attribute bytes are not copied to the string.
EAB, XLATE Extended attribute bytes are copied and translated into
CGA colors.
EAB, NOXLATE Extended attribute bytes are returned.
DISPLAY Data in a non-display field is copied to the target buffer.
NODISPAY Data in a non-display field is copied as null characters to
the target buffer.
See Appendix B - Attributes for descriptions of character, character color, and field attributes
Information about the field to copy can be obtained with Find Field Position (function 31) and Find
Field Length (function 32). The field is copied into Data String beginning with the first byte of the
field and ends when one of the following occurs:
u The end of the field is reached.
u The end of Data String is reached.
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