ezk@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Erez "HWank1" Zadok) (08/03/90)
I have noticed a problem with a WYSE-60 terminal, using an ASCII keyboard in VT100 emulation mode. The "Del" key is actually the on-/off-line key (toggles between comm mode full-duplex and "block") and the key right below it, named "Print/Send" *is* the actual DEL key. The Print/Send key cen be mapped but the Del one cannot. Even if I mapped the Print/Send key to ASCII 127d, users would still not know where the correct DEL key is w/o labels (I have 20 such terminals...) BUT, when the terminal is in WYSE60 mode, all is well and all keys behave as labeled. Also, when the same keyboard was used on a Wyse-99gt terminal (Tektronix emulation and more) in VT100 mode, I had no problems with keys not behaving properly. (We bought these terminals specifically for their vt100 emulation, and replaced the ANSI keyboards with ASCII ones since we wanted the del key to be at the top-right corner of teh main keyboard.) More info: wyse also sells an ANSI keyboard which has the "block" key where the del key is on the ASCII keyboard and the DEL key where the Print/Send key is. So it seems that the only difference between the the ASCII keyboard and the ANSI keyboard are the labels on the keys, but *not* the key codes sent by the terminal in vt100 mode. Has anyone had experience with this? Can anyone with such terminals or keyboards *please* try it and let me know if they experience the same problems? Does anyone have a solution that *worked*? I called Wyse and they know about it. They also thought that the problem applies to the Wyse-99gt I also have, but it does not. They are looking into it and would let me know. The reseller knew nothing about this. Erez. --- A wank's morning starts one machine | Arpa: ezk@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu clock cycle after midnight. | Usenet: ...!rutgers!columbia!cunixf!ezk -HebrewWank #1 (US meaning, not UK!) | Bitnet: ezk@cunixf, erzus@cuvmb