The Terminal window has several host-specific features to streamline your ability to manipulate information both on your personal computer and on a remote host.
If you selected BORIS Master or BORIS Maestro as your Emulation, PC Access lets you use the mouse to do most of your online work. With a "dumb" terminal or ordinary telecommunication program, you have to type words or remember function keys to send commands to a BORIS host. In PC Access, you simply click the mouse on command words or bracketed text the BORIS host displays on the Terminal window. You'll find yourself breezing through online sessions faster and more easily than you could before.
For example, a Maestro System host sends screens containing editable fields and ring menus. With a dumb terminal, you would use the Tab key and/or the arrow keys (¬®¯) to highlight an editable field to edit, or to highlight a ring menu item to select. With PC Access, you simply move the mouse pointer over the object you want, and click the mouse. If the mouse pointer is over an editable field, your terminal cursor will move directly to that field and you may begin editing. If the mouse pointer is over a ring menu item or a parenthesized menu item, PC Access will send the corresponding command to the Maestro System host.
On screens with scrollable lists, such as brief property listings, you can highlight a listing entry by clicking on it with the mouse.
These features let you conduct most online sessions without removing your hand from the mouse, except to edit input fields that require typing (such as a price field).
The following list specifies the host-specific Terminal window features in more detail:
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Host Feature: Parenthesized Menu
Host Feature: Selectable Lists
Host Feature: Slash-delimited letters
Host Feature: Right mouse button
Host Feature: Click on a Blank Area of the Screen