ITEM: CF1261L

Writing messages to status-line of IBM 3151/3 ASCII terminals

ENV:
4.1.4, model 43P, 3151 terminal, e-mail program.

DESC:
Customer wrote a e-mail program, which will flash a 'hot message' on
the status line of the 3151 terminal. The customer can indeed flash
a quick message to the status-line but then cannot reset this status line
to again show machine status infomation, such as the caps-locks being
on, the num-lock on, etc.

ACT:
Issue the following and produce what the customer is doing and then reset 
the status line.
See below.

    echo "\\033= HOT MESSAGE HAS BEEN RECEIVED! \\033=\#:\\033*:"

This wrote the message, then reset the status line, back to defaults.

See pages B-1 thru B7 from the '3151 ASCII Display Station Reference
 Manual'

To incorporate the status messages into a small script :

echo "\\033\\a \\033= HOT MAIL MESSAGE! \\033="
sleep 30
echo "\\033\\a \\033\#: \\033*:"



Support Line: Writing messages to status-line of IBM 3151/3 ASCII terminals ITEM: CF1261L

Dated: September 1996 Category: N/A

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