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From: clj@bbn.com (Chris Jones)
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Subject: META key in MSKermit
Date: 28 Dec 94 16:14:03
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I've been looking for an easy way to use my PC's ALT key as a Unix META key,
and I haven't found it. I own, and have looked through, the MSDOS Kermit book,
as well as the documentation that I got from Columbia when I downloaded
MSKermit 3.13, but I haven't seen an easy way to accomplish what I want to do.
A META key is a shift key which sets the 8th bit of a character. My fingers
are so trained by this time that trying to use Emacs without one is
frustrating. I know how to tell Unix that my terminal has the capability, and
I can get Kermit to send 8 bit characters, but it looks like I'm going to have
to do 128 "set key"s to teach Kermit what I mean when I type ALT-anything.
Have I missed something, or is this the prescribed solution?