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From: taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: ProTERM
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Date: 12 Jan 91 16:50:05 GMT
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From gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn):

>>   a) To send vt100 cursor key sequences you must press one of the
>>      apple keys with the arrows. Shouldn't have to.
>
> If the keypad is indistinguishable to Apple programs from the
> corresponding main keyboard keys, there may be no alternative but
> to require some such kludge.  (I don't know whether or not this is
> the case but it might be.)

    I don't know about on the //e and //c, but the GS has a softswitch
location somehwere in the $C0xx range whose bits define various
characteristics of the key just pressed, i.e.: repeat on, numeric keypad, caps
lock down, shift down, etc.

Brian T. Tao  {taob@pnet91.cts.com} ||  Computer guru?  Someone who got
University of Metro Toronto         ||  their computer a couple of weeks
Scarberia, ON, MIC 3A8         *B-) ||  before you did.  (Alvin Toffler)