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From: kusogari@shef.ac.uk (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Ckermit for Unix and VTKeys
Date: 1 Jul 1995 13:09:25 GMT
Organization: Centre for Japanese Studies, Univ. of Sheffield
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Frank da Cruz (fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
: In article <DAs98L.F1E@omen.com>, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX <caf@omen.com> wrote:
: >In article <3rutue$cum@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>,
: >Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
: >>that actually *do* have a keyboard and screen, it would seem to make sense
: >>that Kermit should be able to see all the keys.
: >>Unfortunately, this is not the case. Most varieties of UNIX do not let
: >>the application see the keyboard. There is no kernel function called "get
: >>keyboard scan code". There is only read(), and read() reads a character,
: >
: >There is more available. Try "man curses" and take it from there.
: No, that's not it. Users want to map, say, Ctrl-Alt-Shift-F7 to something.
: Curses isn't going to tell you that the user pressed Ctrl-Alt-Shift-F7.
: It doesn't even know what kind of keyboard you have.
I missed the beginning of this, so if I'm answering a question
that was not asked....
With SCO UNIX, you can remap the keyboard both through system
calls and various utility programmes, and you do have access to
the scan codes if you want to mess around this way. Although
I've not done it, I would imagine that you could write a kermit
macro that would invoke the appropriate SCO utility to remap the
keyboard much as mskermit does.
SCO UNIX may have more of these capabilities because it was built
as a UNIX for PeeCee (Intel) platforms....
SCO UNIX has explicit support for scancode terminals.
: >BTW I'm still waiting for a response to my repeated challenges
: >for an honest, public rerun of the Columbia Unversity Kermit
: >News "True-Life Benchmarks". Why keep stonewalling?
: >
: We had this discussion and fully aired our respective views a year ago
: in comp.dcom.modems, at such great length and detail that when there was
: finally nothing more to say and the discussion died down, a great sigh
: of relief went up from the entire network. Nobody stonewalled. It's all
: in writing, and neither one of us needs to waste another year rehashing it
: all over over again, nor do our gentle readers need to suffer through it.
Amen (not Omen).
--
Earl H. Kinmonth, Centre for Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield,
Sheffield, England S10 2TN jp1ek@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk