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From: WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: VLT & VTXXX PF1-PF4 keys
Message-ID: <91116.181608WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 27 Apr 91 02:16:08 GMT
References: <1991Apr26.145312.3680@e2big.mko.dec.com>
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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Heh, I was wondering how long it would take before someone caught me on
that one. You're right, VLT doesn't do that particular VT100 "feature"
right. It seemed at the time more useful to allow people to use the
keys for the symbols that are on the keycaps in numeric mode, and it
didn't occur to me at the time that VT100's don't work that way.
Unfortunately, there is no option to change this. Short of changing the
system keymap (usa1) to send the VT100 sequences. Which might be okay
actually... Or you could use the VLT WEDGE command to intercept all
keystrokes and to handle those four yourself. In ARexx, this can be
a little slow, but you might write a 30-line C program to do it.

By the way: I won't have INTERNET access for the coming four weeks or
so, so I won't be answering questions for a while. Don't consider it
impoliteness...

       Willy.
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