HP-UX TN3270 Users Guide, March 1998

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Getting Started with 3270 Emulation
Using Menus and Dialog Boxes
Motif In the Motif emulation program, the 3270 display appears as part of the
main screen (with the menu bar at the top); you can access the menus at
any time. However, if you have more than one active session, you can
access the menus in only one session window at any time. When you pull
down a menu or move to a dialog box in one window, the menu bars in all
other 3270 emulation session windows are disabled until you end all
menus and dialog boxes in the first window.
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Temporary Exit to the HP-UX Command
Prompt
To move temporarily from a 3270 display session to a command prompt
for HP-UX, leaving the TN3270 emulation program running, press
TEMPEXIT (default keystroke Ctrl + Z). This starts a new HP-UX shell of
the type specified by the SHELL environment variable (the default is
/bin/sh). You could use this feature, for example, to do any of the
following tasks:
• Find the name or directory of a style file
• Use the command-line file transfer feature
• Run a HLLAPI application
To resume 3270 emulation from a temporary exit, use the HP-UX
end-of-file (EOF) key sequence for your terminal (typically Ctrl + D).
Motif The TEMPEXIT keystroke is not supported in the Motif TN3270
emulation program. Instead, you can move to a new terminal window
using the mouse as usual.
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Ending Emulation
When you have finished using 3270 emulation and want to exit to the
HP-UX command prompt, take these steps:
Step 1. Log off the host system (for each active 3270 display session).
Step 2. Press ACTIONS (default keystroke Ctrl + U) to display the main screen.