> Not sure if this is the place to ask this question, but I am stumped about a
> keyboard redefinition request a client has sent me.
>
> When we ported a MF application over to Unix recently, the system owner
> began tor receive complaints from the user community about how the <Enter>
> key now works.  Rather than move the cursor to the next available field (it
> performed a newline/NL/LF), as they were used to, it behaves as one would
> expect an <Enter> key to react in a windows or unix-based environment: Both
> a carriage return and line feed take place, and the users don't like that.
>
> We use puTTY to access unix.  Is there something there that we can tweak to
> make the <Enter> key work as a newline?  I have been playing around with
> puTTY but have found nothing; and a google search has been fruitless.
> Didn't see anything on servline24 either.

In actual fact, it is not really the problem with the ENTER key per se
but with the program interpreting the key.  A *lot* depends upon the
application talking to the "terminal" that PuTTY is emulating.

A lot depends upon how the data entry screen is organized.  I've done a
lot of curses()-driven applications and this issue is pretty clear to me.

--
John R. Campbell             Speaker to Machines              souperb
at gmail dot com
Why OS X? Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows

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