Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: .plan
Message-ID: <10847@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Aug 89 07:50:37 GMT
References: <61@towernet.UUCP> <1989Aug23.192105.21328@ee.rochester.edu> <10814@smoke.BRL.MIL> <11023@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <11023@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell) writes:
>I can understand how you one could program the functions keys, but how
>could you simulate one being pressed?

Some terminals support an escape sequence that, when received, causes
the contents of the specified function key to be transmitted just as
though the key was pressed.  Isn't that wonderful?