Define a "good" telnet client.
The client I am using works in all other Linux apps without flaw, I don't
know what this means but it receives an 82 on vttest. You can see it's home
page. http://www.musc.edu/~brannanp/telnet/ I like this client a lot
because it's free, and it looks just like a DOS app to my users (I haven't
told them we're not still using DOS).
I would be willing to try other programs, and, as a matter of fact, I think
I have tried about every program you can download. I get the same results
every time (Except w/ Power Term). For example, Tiny Term is a very high
quality terminal emulator. It suffers the same problems that my free one
does. I can program any of the F1-F12 keys, and delete, but I cannot
program any modified (alt + F1, etc.) key sequences.
That is why I asked in a previous message for the configuration file from
any person out there who has successfully made it work. I didn't receive
any replies.
I will ask again, if you or anyone you know of has made any other terminal
emulator work, let me see your key map files, and I can make almost any
other program work.
Matthew E. Nuzum
IS Director
Florida Vacation Accommodations
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alejandro Nestor Vargas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 9:21 AM
To: Matthew Nuzum
Subject: RE: keyboard mapping (everyone please read)
> 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.
