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From: malpass@LL-VLSI.ARPA (Don Malpass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100
Subject: Re:  complain complain complain :-)
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Date: 28 Dec 87 15:11:33 GMT
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	I second the motion.  I bought the AT-clone for work with a
keyboard layout that you describe, only because it was the
lesser of two evils.  Having two CRL keys is nice, but putting them
where IBM did is dreadful.
	Now a question, which I would research myself if this clone
came with any documentation:  Do your "Delete" and "Backspace" (left-
arrow) keys squirt out the codes you are used to with the Z-100?  I use
this clone to access 7 UNIX systems, some via Kermit and some via
Ethernet (SUN NFS board in the AT - fantastic!), and I've had a heqq of
a time beating all the .login files into submission to deal with both
the AT, some terminals I occasionally use, FTP from other machines, and
the [well-behaved] HZ-100 from home through a modem using BESTERM.  It
appears that my left-arrow does NOT put out <CRL>-H, although it's not
obvious that Kermit's simulation of a VT-100 isn't part of the
problem.  There's probably some PC-DOS program out there which would
allow me to reprogram the keys (as Zenith made possible - perhaps too
easy), but due to lack of documentation with this system, I haven't
spent any time looking.  It would be nice to set up the function keys
easily too, and I'm sure there's a way.  I'll have to borrow somebody's
PC-DOS manual, except that every machine I can put my hands on is some
sort of clone that has an almost-PC-DOS system (Compac, HP, etc).  But
it's still worth the pain not to have an IBM logo on my machine.
	don             [malpass@LL-vlsi.arpa]