HP-UX TN3270 Users Guide, March 1998

Appendix B 269
Status Line Information
How the Status Line Is Displayed
How the Status Line Is Displayed
The way in which the status line is displayed on the screen depends on
your terminal's hardware and software and on your 3270 customization,
as follows:
• If your terminal's hardware and its terminfo entry both support a
status line to which user programs can write, you can customize 3270
sessions to write the 3270 status line to the terminal's status line. For
more information about terminfo requirements, contact your
System Administrator or refer to the HP-UX TN3270 Administrators
Guide.
• If status line display is not supported by your terminal, or if you
choose not to use it, the TN3270 emulation program uses the last line
of the terminal's screen to display the status line. If your terminal's
screen has more lines than required for the 3270 emulation display
(for example, if you are using screen model 2, which has 24 lines on a
25-line screen), the status line is shown below the 3270 emulation
display. If not (for example, if you are using screen model 4, which has
43 lines on a 43-line screen), the status line shares the last line of the
screen with the last line of the 3270 emulation display; pressing the
STAT TOG (Status Line Toggle) key (default keystroke Ctrl + W)
alternates between displaying the status line and displaying the last
line of the 3270 display.
Status Line Display Modes
You have a choice between the following display modes for the status
line:
Always on
The status line appears all the time.
On when required
The status line is blank unless a Do Not Enter or
Communications Check message is displayed. It
appears when a condition occurs that causes one of
these messages and returns to blank when the
condition is cleared.