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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: META key in MSKermit
Date: 29 Dec 1994 00:05:53 GMT
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In article <CLJ.94Dec28161403@unicorn.bbn.com>,
Chris Jones <clj@bbn.com> wrote:
>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?
>
I agree it would be nice to be able to assign arbitrary modifier functions
(like Meta) to arbitrary keys (like Alt), but MS-DOS Kermit presently lacks
this capability.
But no, you don't have to write 128 SET KEYs because we've already done it
for you in the EMACS.INI file that comes with version 3.14 of MS-DOS Kermit,
currently in Beta.
Anonymous ftp to kermit.columbia.edu, directory kermit/test/bin, binary mode,
file mstibm.zip. Unzip with "-d" switch. Look in KEYBOARD subdirectory.
- Frank