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From: paul@k9.hawkesbury.uws.EDU.AU (Paul Hardaker)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet 2.3b15 keyboard arrow woes
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Date: 6 Jun 91 03:56:35 GMT
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CASERTA@JHUVM.BITNET (Rich Caserta) writes:

>On Fri, 31 May 91 10:48:00 MST Pete Klammer 303/556-3915 said:
>>It's working now... My problems arose from confusion between
>>TELNET.KEY, a required file of fixed name from the same path as
>>TELBIN.EXE is run from, and the KEYFILE= command in CONFIG.TEL, which
>>may augment, but not replace, the TELNET.KEY file.  I had pointed
>>KEYFILE= to my own TELKEY.SET file, and as I edited that, things
>>weren't changing as I expected.
>>
>>TELNET complains if TELNET.KEY is not found, but it does not seem to
>>care if the KEYFILE= file is not found.
>[ ... stuff deleted ...]
>>This is still basic, since I haven't turned on any fancy CTRL+ or ALT+
>>things for EMACS or whatever, but I have arrows and digits, and I'm happy!

>I have a related question: What if you want to REPLACE key mappings depending
>on the host you want to Telnet to?   For example, what if you want, function
>keys mapped to send one set of codes to an IBM mainframe, AND LATER, want them
>mapped differently to send other codes to a VAX running WordPerfect?

Not sure about NCSA Telnet, but CUTCP (Clarkson Uni version of NCSA Telnet)
allows the addition of the 'keyfile=' to each of your host definition lines
in CONFIG.TEL. Eg,

name=host1 ; hostip=w.x.y.z ; keyfile=host1.key
name=host2 ; hostip=a.b.c.d ; keyfile=host2.key

and so on.

You could try this with NCSA Telnet, otherwise, try using CUTCP.

Paul Hardaker