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- From: dblakele@acpub.duke.edu (Dean Blakeley MD)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: PF Keymapping
- Message-ID: <4104@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 10:27:13 GMT
- Sender: news@news.duke.edu
- Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.
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- First off I want to thank everybody for their responses. The original question
- that I was faced with was this:
-
- Subject: Keymapping PF Keys
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 02:33:00 GMT
- From: dblakele@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dean D Blakeley)
- Organization: The Ohio State University
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.023300.23904@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
-
- Got a problem here. There is a system I'm trying to use which requires
- that I do a keymapping of PF keys for the NeXT keyboard. I'm logging
- in to a DEC mainframe that uses Ultrix 4.2 (I believe) and am getting
- into a sub-system that is set up to do CD-ROM searches on a set of
- CD's for MEDLINE. I'm connecting using the NeXT-kermit from the network
- (with pretty much no documentation as I've found out) with a 68040 cube
- and a DoveFax modem through a standard POTS line (no ISDN yet, Ha!).
-
- My instructions from the user site were rather unhelpful, but then again
- that's what I get for beating a bunch of DOS-heads with a NeXT. Any
- suggestions via email will be helpful, and I'll summarize once I get
- my new account set up at Duke University with internet access. Thanks.
-
- The responses to the query were quick and to the point:
-
- From: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 22:13:00 -0700
- Organization: Cubic Solutions - NeXT software development and consulting
-
- >If I recall, the PF keys were on the top row of the numeric keypad. Since
- >you're probably using Terminal, you can set its preferences to generate VT100
- >codes from the numeric keypad, or the Alt modifier key is supposed to generate
- >VT100 numeric keypad codes if you don't want to change Terminal's preferences.
-
- >I just tried it in this message (I'm using emacs as my mail editor) and the
- >top numeric keypad keys generated 2-character codes using VT100 emulation,
- >^[OP, ^[OQ, ^[OR, and ^[OS (these are actually 4-character sequences because
- >email isn't happy passing non-printable characters).
-
-
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 08:52:56 EDT
- From: JKTROXE%ERENJ.BITNET@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU
- Subject: Re: Keymapping PF Keys
-
-
- >Try alt-1 through alt-= on the top of the keyboard.
- >Works for me when I emulate a vt100 dialing in via kermit to an IBM
- >mainframe.
-
-
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 19:31:07 mdt
- From: N Tomczak-Jaegermann <ntomczak@vega.math.ualberta.ca>
-
- >If you are using Terminal to run your kermit then Alt-<keys from
- >numeric pad> are sending various function keys. Actually you
- >may change that with Preferences. I am signing on to VM which
- >is far more brain damaged.
-
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 03:53:10 CDT
- From: scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess)
-
- >Not certain what you mean. The vt100 PF[1-4] keys work from
- >Terminal or Stuart when you have vt100 keypad mode on. If you
- >want the vt320 function keys or some such, you're out of luck for
- >now.
-
- [dblakele speaking again]
-
- Well, I tried the suggestions and went back to the instructions given to
- me by the Duke medical library on keymapping. Apparently to emulate a
- F1 command, their system wanted to receive a PF1, keypad 1 sequence which
- would send a ^[OP^[Oq string. I tried the various suggestions of
- Alt-keypad 1, but what finally worked wasn't immediately apparent. Now,
- mind everybody, I'm just a physician and some things aren't always as
- intuitively obvious to me ;-) Anyway, what worked was using the keypad
- strictly as I remembered it. The PF1 key would be on the top row of the
- keypad. On the NeXT keyboard that would be the ~` key. I used that as
- the PF1 and the numeric with it and, voila, it worked. I'm in business
- and can do my literature searching from home and use my NeXT as opposed
- to the Dell 386 machine they gave me in my office.
-
- Well, thanks again everybody.
-
- Peace
-
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