wade@sdacs.ucsd.EDU (Wade Blomgren) (08/23/88)
In article <2260@alliant.Alliant.COM>, doherty@Alliant.COM (Dave Doherty) sez: > > Can anyone tell me how to transmit a 'break' from the Mac II extended > keyboard? I need to send one to my data switch while in kermit... > This is a common question, so here is some info - feel free to correct any errors: There is no "break" key on any Macintosh keyboard. This is in some sense because break is not really a character, ie there is no ascii value for "break". Break is sort of a "condition" of a connection, yes? OK, so there is no "break" key. Macintosh telecommunications programs must determine what key or key combination will be used to indicate that the user wishes to assert the "break" condition on the connection. For example, MacTerminal uses the sequence "option-enter" to indicate a break. 'uw' has a menu selection for "send break", which can be mapped via Quickeys. I use "pause" (F-15) as my break key in 'uw', via Quickeys. Kermit allows you to define your own key bindings. Just select "Set Key Macros" from the settings menu (assuming you have a current version of Kermit, ie 0.9(40). The dialog will ask for a key or key combo to be mapped. Press the desired key or keys. You can then enter a value to be sent to the host when those keys are pressed during a terminal session. Note that you must have the Menu Keys Active option turned OFF if you want to use the Command (clover) key as part of a binding. To indicate that the value to be sent is the special "break" condition, enter "\break" (omit the quotation marks) in the data area that Kermit offers you. If the "break" condition asserted by Kermit is not long enough for your purposes you can use "\longbreak" instead. Other emulation programs have different methods for generating a break, and there also exists a public domain DA called "DoBreak" which will handle things for those using emulators that are unable to generate one. PacerLink (PCLink) - Softkeys can be mapped to send a "break" RedRyder10.3 - Key Macro strings can contain special characters to send break or long break (see manual) Versaterm - Command-enter (shift-enter for long) SmartComm - Command-comma (command-,) Wade Blomgren UCSD Academic Computing wade@sdacs.ucsd.edu