Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> 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.
[ Bah. The majority of very good terminal emulators run on unix
and have source code available.]
The Ctrl + ^ then "a" combinations and their kin are to cover the
lackings in many terminals so you can type by hand what is missing,
and still be functional.
Dosemu will get as much out information out of terminfo as possible.
> I think that there is another option, but I am not capable of doing it. I
> think that dos-emu could be modified to make it friendlier to terminals.
Dosemu is current as friendly as possible (in the general case) keyboard wise.
The keys you can read from a terminfo/termcap entry are limited.
And the capabilites are often not filled in anyway, in the terminfo entry.
The only serious current lack not having support for unicode
terminals. Which should make both display and keyboard codes more
flexible.
I have recently added support for the enter&exit pc scancode mode
capabilites in my most recent version of my experimental keyboard
code. See my other message.
The best solution I can think of for windows.
Is get VNC:
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
Run an X session in VNC
Display that VNC session on your windows machine.
Run xdos.
Eric
