To customize the TELNET/TN3270 processing environment, use the ENABLE, DISABLE, and SET commands. You can modify how TELNET and TN3270 perform the following actions: o Send and receive transmissions o Display processing on your terminal o Interpret certain control characters You can redefine the following control characters, in situations when, for example, your terminal or the remote host does not recognize the corresponding default control character. o Echo o Erase o Escape o Flush output o Interrupt o Kill o Quit Use the SET command to redefine these characters. For example, the following command defines the interrupt character to be the letter a or A. TELNET> SET INTERRUPT "^a" TN3270 allows you to redefine your keyboard. You can redefine most IBM 3270 model functions and all emulated functions and characters. You can create a key definition file with DEFINE/KEY statements to redefine the keyboard. Alternatively, you can redefine a key interactively by using the DEF KEY function (Ctrl/K on VT100-and VT200-series terminals) You can determine the mode TELNET uses to transmit data. The appropriate TELNET mode for a session depends on: o The remote host to which you are connecting o The applications you use The following table shows the modes that control TELNET communications. Mode Function Local Characters The local host interprets control characters, Mode translating them to TELNET protocol sequences (ENABLE LOCAL_CHARS). Use this mode when the local and remote hosts implement different control characters. By default, characters are interpreted by the remote host (DISABLE LOCAL_ CHARS). Binary Mode The local host sends transmissions in binary mode (ENABLE BINARY). Use this mode when the remote host expects each line of data to end with a carriage return/line feed combination. By default, the local host sends transmissions with the end-of-line (EOL) character mapped to the carriage return/line feed combination (DISABLE BINARY). Debug Mode TELNET displays data flow in both hexadecimal and readable text (ENABLE DEBUG). By default, TELNET displays data in readable text only (DISABLE DEBUG). Character TELNET transmits data one character at a time Transmission (SET MODE CHAR) rather than line by line. Use Mode this mode when you run a text editor (on the remote host) that does character processing. Character transmission mode is the default. Line TELNET transmits data one line at a time (SET Transmission MODE LINE). Most clients send a character at a Mode time. The remote host server must support line transmission mode. This allows you to do signal trapping as well as local-character editing and tab expansion.