ckchee@dgp.toronto.edu (Chuan Chee) (02/04/90)
The following is a question from a friend of mine. Please reply
to me and I shall forward the answer(s) to him. He has no usenet
access.
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We've got a problem on terminal emulation under X-Windows:
We are putting in HP Unix Work-stations for our users. Yet because
there are some applications running on PCs, as an interim solution,
we would like to allow our users to access those PCs through the
work-stations.
To achieve this, we directly connect the work-station and the PC
by a RS232 cable. On the work-station side, we have xterm running
to emulate a VT102 terminal. At the PC end, we have a memory
resident program called pcANYWHERE running. Xterm will create a
VT102 window on the work-station and we use the Unix CU command to
logon to the PC. At the other end, pcANYWHERE will read the PC's
serial port, translates the characters received as if they are
keyboard input and it also sends the PC screen back to the work-
station. However because of the difference between the VT102
keyboard and the IBM keyboard, e.g. VT102 doesn't support Shift F1
or Alt F1, some of our applications cannot be run satisfactorily
through the xterm window when those special Function Keys are
required.
Therefore we would like to find a xterm replacement that allows
keyboard re-mapping or to modify the xterm to do the keyboard
re-mapping.
(1) Does anybody know any VT102 Terminal Emulators besides TERM
and BLAST that works similar to xterm and allows keyboard
re-mapping?
(2) Is there anybody who has modified the xterm program and do a
keyboard re-mapping? If yes, how?
Please advise if you know the answer. Thank you.
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...Chuan Chee
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