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From: west@gargoyle.UUCP (Steve Westfall)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.unix
Subject: Re: PC/AT Function Keys under Xenix
Message-ID: <404@gargoyle.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Apr-86 23:33:29 EST
Article-I.D.: gargoyle.404
Posted: Thu Apr 10 23:33:29 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Apr-86 08:24:45 EST
References: <400@gargoyle.UUCP>
Reply-To: west@gargoyle.UUCP (Steve Westfall)
Distribution: net
Organization: U. of Chicago Graduate School of Business
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Keywords: Function keys, Xenix, setkey
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Summary: PC/AT Function Key Problem Solved

In article <400@gargoyle.UUCP> I wrote:

>I am in desparate need of information on how to use the
>PC/AT's function keys under Xenix.
>. . . I was surprised to find that pressing any of the
>ten function keys has absolutely no effect on the computer.

Since this posting I received several calls and messages
about how to solve this problem.  IBM's Xenix 1.00 (= Microsoft's
3.0) has a "setkey" command which allows one to load an arbitrary
string into a function key.  Its format is:

			setkey keynum "string"

Example:	setkey 1 "who"

This loads the "who" command into function key one.  I included
such commands in my .login and .profile files to load Ansi
escape sequences into all ten function keys.  (I also tried
doing this in the /etc/rc file, hoping to get a permanent
assignment that would be valid whenever anyone logs in, but
this does not seem to work.)

My thanks to everyone who responded!


Steve Westfall		      uucp:    ihnp4!gargoyle!west
Univ. of Chicago
Graduate School of Business