[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Kermit 2.28 help needed!

reza0@ihlpl.UUCP (H. Reza Zarafshar) (12/09/86)

For all you knowledgable folks out there who have used kermit,
is there a way to program one of the function keys to contain
the escape character.  i.e. I want to be able to hit f1 and
get the effect of "ctrl ] push"  I have tried everything I could
possibly think of and was not successful.  Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

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Reza Zarafshar,
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jkg@gitpyr.UUCP (12/11/86)

In article <1554@ihlpl.UUCP> reza0@ihlpl.UUCP (H. Reza Zarafshar) writes:
>For all you knowledgable folks out there who have used kermit,
>is there a way to program one of the function keys to contain
>the escape character.  i.e. I want to be able to hit f1 and
>get the effect of "ctrl ] push"  I have tried everything I could
>possibly think of and was not successful.  Any help would be
>greatly appreciated.

I just tried this on Kermit 2.29 using the standard method for reprogramming
keys (set key scan XX, etc...) and it didn't work. I suspect that it is be-
cause Kermit is reading the scan codes directly and converting them to ASCII
or whatever. if this is the case, then the only way to break is to physically 
type ^]. Any other key combination(s) will be sent directly to the serial port
using whatever other mapping you have programmed in.

That's one reason why you have to press ^] twice to send it to the host. The
first key press is grabbed by Kermit as the escape character and doesn't get
transmitted.

                                            Jim Greenlee

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