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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Kermit 5A(191) can I remap the right control key?
Message-Id: <1995Nov16.163336.67086@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 95 16:33:36 MDT
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In article <Pine.SUN.3.90.951112204044.19851A-100000@bronze.coil.com>, "Mark T. Regan" <reganm@coil.com> writes:
> Is there a way to remap the right control key? I would like it to be Enter,
> and the original Enter to be something else (3270 New Line), when I use
> Kermit through a protocol converter. When I use SHOW KEY, the right control
> key doesn't produce any scan code. My PC is an IBM P70 (8573-121), running
> WARP CONNECT.
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There seems to be a spate of questions similar to this and perhaps
one answer will help others.
The special keys ALT, SHIFT, CONTROL produce nothing by themselves.
They only modify what another key produces. The system Bios reports only
a final result, not the individual key make/break sequences. Thus A/S/C
can change what a reportable key does report, but that's all.
Yes, the term "scan code" is misleading when referring to what
Kermit terms a raw key code. It's not the make/break stuff but rather a
composite code representing the Bios result plus a look-aside at the
Bios's idea of what special keys were pressed *at the same time*. Nothing
is reported until a reportable key is pressed. (Overloading that reportable
word here, sorry). Maybe I should have used the term "key code" way back
when this material was first being designed.
You might notice that the Enter key can produce two different codes:
Carriage Return when pressed alone, and Line Feed when used as Control-Enter.
That's built into the Bios. Kermit's SET KEY facility lets one change these
results to be whatever, much as we flip the BackSpace key between sending BS
and DEL for different operating systems.
Joe D.