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From: PKLAMMER@CUDNVR.DENVER.COLORADO.EDU (Pete Klammer 303/556-3915)
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Subject: NCSA Telnet 2.3b15 keyboard arrow woes
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Date: 30 May 91 22:59:00 GMT
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Help!  I can't get my arrow keys to work.  MS-KERMIT gets it right, why can't
TELNET do it?  

I have a Zenith-158 (2-speed XT clone), with a Northgate Omnikey/102 
aftermarket keyboard (CTRL on the home row, where god intended it to be).

With NUMLOCK 'ON', the MS-KERMIT SCANCHECK program reports the same
scancodes for the the arrow keys as the numeric keypad keys, but the
subtle distinction seems to be that 'second byte' from BIOS, which is
NULL in the case of the grey arrow key, and an ASCII digit character
in the case of the numeric keypad (e.g., '8').

Every machination of the TELNET.KEY file I have tried fails to
recognize the distinction between the grey arrow keys and the numeric
keypad: either they are both numeric (and I don't have any arrows at
all, i.e., grey uparrow produces an '8') or they are both arrows
(i.e., keypad 8 is never 8, is always uparrow).  Any ideas?

--poko "Eesti vabaks=Free Estonia!" Pete Klammer (303)556-3915 FAX(303)556-4822
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