Essential Entries

The following entries must be present for the Micro Focus COBOL system to operate correctly. Entries marked with an asterisk (*) should be set appropriately for the type of terminal.

Entry Mnemonic
Clear to end of line el
Clear screen clear
Clear to end of screen ed
Cursor address (row, column) cup
Cursor down cud1
Cursor home home
Cursor left cub1
Cursor right cuf1
Cursor up cuu1
Eat newline glitch * xenl
Entries for cursor keys kcud1, kcub1, kcuf1, kcuu1
Entries for function keys f1 to f63 * kf1 to kf63
Entries for home, next page, previous page, end, backtab, insert, delete and clear-to-end-of-field keys * khome, knp, kpp, kend, kcbt, kich1, kdch1, kel
Exit attribute mode sgr0
Number of columns ** cols
Number of lines ** lines
Xon/xoff * xon

** The number of lines and columns will be read dynamically if using an X terminal, or can be overridden using the environment variables LINES and COLUMNS. See the appendix Environment Variables for details.