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From: Frank Da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Simple ESC sequences send a lowercase letter instead of uppercase when using ibm3151 emulation
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:23:14 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2007-01-24, trosien@gmail.com <trosien@gmail.com> wrote:
: I have Kermit v2.1.3 and have notice that when using the ibm3151
: emulation that when trying to send an ESC X where X is any capital
: letter, that what gets transmitted is actually the lowercase of the
: same letter.
:
: I was trying to map the Gray Delete key to send \{27}\{81} i.e.
: (ESCQ) which is what a host is expecting to see for DEL as opposed to
: the Kermit default of \{127}. When sending ESCQ what actually gets
: sent on the wire is ESCq with any single letter coming after the ESC
: getting translated to lowercase.
:
: Any ideas why the case conversion occurs? other emulations I tried
: seem to be fine, but not ibm3151. This occurs with any simple
: uppercase ESC X call thought other more complex calls are fine. An
: attempt to send ESCQQ which transmits as ESCQQ so my workaround right
: now is to map the del to use an artificially complex sequence by adding
: offsetting right and left cursor moves to get it to work.
:
: set term key ibm3151 /literal \4398 \{27}\{81}\krtarr\klfarr
:
: Hope this helps someone and perhaps the reason for this can be
: discovered and or fixed should another release of Kermit be issued.
: Hope this helps someone. anyone have any ideas why it happens tho?
:
We've known about this bug for some time; it's listed in:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/k95/newbugs.txt
as Bug #723. As noted there, it is fixed in the next release; which is
discussed here:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95next.html
A copy of K95 patched to fix this bug is available as described here:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/support.html
- Frank