HP-UX TN3270 Users Guide, March 1998

Chapter 3 61
Getting Started with 3270 Emulation
Starting the TN3270 Emulation Program
-e Used to suppress the menu interface so that you can
save runtime memory. However, using this option
limits you to using only the 3270 emulation sessions
already configured. The menu interface is inaccessible.
Therefore, if you use this option, you must use a style
file that has at least one initially active display session
of a suitable model size for your monitor. For more
information about style files, see Chapter 6,
“Customizing 3270 Emulation.”
-b Starts the TN3270 emulation program as a background
process. To save memory, the menu interface process is
disabled (it would be inaccessible in any case). This
option cannot be used with the -e option. For more
information, see “Running 3270 Emulation in the
Background”.
Motif The -e and -b options are not available with the Motif
program. The main screen menus are available in the
Motif program, and only tn3270 can be run in the
background.
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-h Specifies session IDs to be used with your 3270
sessions. The -h option must be followed by a list of
one-byte hexadecimal values representing ASCII
characters, separated by commas. Any value in the
range 0x01–0xFF can be used, as long as it does not
match any other session ID or session long name used
with this TN3270 emulation program. These session
IDs are assigned to each session in turn.
Two consecutive commas indicate that no session ID is
being assigned; in this case, or if the list contains fewer
session IDs than your configured sessions, the session
IDs specified in the style file are used instead.
For example, if you have five sessions, specifying the
string -h 0x01,0x02,,0x04 is interpreted as follows:
the ID for session 1 is set to 0x01, the ID for session 2
is set to 0x02, the ID for session 4 is set to 0x04, and
the IDs for sessions 3 and 5 are taken from the style
file (because you did not specify IDs for these sessions).