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Assorted {AS,OS}/400 notes

Various unclassified notes for the weird IBM midrange thing.

Why does the OV/400 word processor keep eating my newlines and messing up my formatting?

This is a weird “feature” of OV/400/side effect of not having a proper terminal keyboard. Press PF13 and set Adjust text when editing to N. As far as I can tell this doesn't really have any negative impact. A newline in OV/400 is expressed with the Carriage return macro, you'll have to bind this in your 5250 client. I use shift+enter.

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