> It seems to me that the current keyboard functions require a terminal
> emulator to support macros, which can then be assigned to a key sequence.
> So if you wish to send the key sequence Alt+F1 to a program you need to do
> this- Ctrl + ^ then "a" then Ctrl + ^ then 1. This is very laborious, and
> most terminal emulators don't allow you to program the keys to do this.
> Therefore, the users that want to do this must spend about $200 per
> workstation for a high end telnet client.
Some terminals can send ALT keys. This is defined in terminfo/termcap. In
that cases, it may be used by any unix program. I think dosemu can do this
also.
On other way, some terminals like Wise has a scan code mode. Entering this
mode, the keyboard sends scan-code pairs (like the generated by standard PC
keyboards) to the host. I don't know if dosemu is capable to use it if it is
described in terminfo (enter_scancode_mode and exit_scancode_mode) database
for this terminal. It may be interesting to test, in example, a WISE 60
terminal emulation (or a real wise60 terminal) with dosemu to see if it is
used by it.
I think wee need a GOOD telnet client, with a linux color terminal
emulation, to be used with linux.
