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Article: 12849 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: MSDOS Kermit book
Date: 9 Oct 2001 16:57:57 GMT
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In article <m17ku4zs9i.fsf@rgristroph-austin.ath.cx>,
Rob Ristroph <rgristroph@yahoo.com> wrote:
: I'm doing a small project that involved connecting a set of
: DOS machines to a linux machine as terminals. I'm about to
: buy the DOS Kermit book, but it occurred to me to ask first
: if a new version of the book (or DOS Kermit, for that metter)
: was planned in light of the new 8.0 version now in beta.
:
: Should I buy the DOS book now, or is a new one going to come
: out shortly ?
:
What you see is what you get; there are no plans for a new edition.
The MS-DOS Kermit software information is here:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/mskermit.html
This includes update notes for the releases that came out after the second
editio of the book.
: Another issue is, that the software on the linux machine uses
: the F-keys as various hotkeys, so I have to figure out how to
: pass them through, I presume by using the correct terminal
: type. Is this addressed in the book, or should I post a more
: detailed question here ?
:
You'll have to use a terminal emulation that both MS-DOS Kermit and
Linux support, such as vt220 or vt320, and you'll probably also need to
execute a key-mapping command file such as vt300.ini, which can be found
on the Kermit ftp site as:
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/a/msivt3.ini
to assign the appropriate DEC terminal keys to the desired PC keys, which
in turn makes them send the escape sequences that the DEC keys would send,
which in turn means your Linux application has to be using curses (or
ncurses) to read keystrokes.
- Frank