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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: Terminal Emulator
Date: 30 Mar 1997 22:58:50 GMT
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In article <333D6054.4410@ix.netcom.com>,
Helen Scott <hopscott@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
: I work for a large company, and we are getting ready to go to Windows
: NT. We are looking into using Kermit as our terminal emulator to
: connect to our Host computer which is in another state. I have been
: using a demo of K-95. I am having problems with using the keyboard..
: When I connect to our host computer, the function keys do not work like
: they should. For example, F3 would end a session. On K-95, F8 performs
: this function.. F7 and F8 should move me forward or backward within a
: file. With K-95, it's {shift} F2 and {shift} F3. I have a manual, and
: I have looked at the entire chapter for terminal emulation. From what I
: can tell, it's supposed to be automatic. I have used a VT100 template.
:
A terminal session has two ends. When we type a letter "A" we expect the
application on the other end to receive and understand it as a letter "A".
Similarly for the other letters and digits and punctuation keys.
But function keys (F1, F2, etc, and their shifted and/or Ctrl and/or Alt
modified versions) are not ordinary keys. To complicate matters, PCs are not
VT100 or VT320 terminals, which the host application (probably) thinks you are
using. Thus the PC application (Kermit) must be told to send whatever the
host expects for each special key.
Now your host was obviously not set up for a real VT100 terminal, because
real VT100s do not have F keys at all. They have PF1 through PF4, plus
arrow keys and a numeric keypad -- that's it. VT220s have all those, plus
F6 through F20 (but no F3).
So whatever you were using before was set up specially for your application.
Therefore, Kermit 95 must also be set up in the same way. Unfortunately
we have no way of knowing what this special setup might have been.
You should contact kermit-support@columbia.edu with the details about your
previous terminal emulator, and then we can help you.
- Frank