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From: dag@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM (Daniel A. Graifer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: Running Dos Applications From Remote Terminals
Message-ID: <572@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM>
Date: 9 Jan 91 17:25:01 GMT
References: <1991Jan9.063128.214@uunet.uu.net!weyrich>
Reply-To: dag@fciva.UUCP (Daniel A. Graifer)
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The problem here is that Merge, in order to correctly emulate the keyboard
on a MS-DOS machine, needs 'scancodes' rather than ascii characters.  Other-
wise, you have to get things like F-keys using escape sequences.  Locus,
the originator of Merge, has terminfo files for wyse-60, one of televideo's
terminals that has a PC mode, and something called a kt70.  I've only tried
the 'wy60ix' TERM setting.  This works surprisingly well.  Invoking DOS or
any screen oriented DOS application from the command line sends the escape
sequence to reconfigure the terminal from 'WYSE-60' to 'PCTERM'.  Exiting
DOS sets it back.  In DOS applications, all normal DOS keystrokes work. 
(Even CTRL-ALT-DEL works in the sense that it terminates Merge.)

Hope this helps.

Dan