was@gdwb.oz.au (Warren Stokes) (07/31/90)
I realise that the doco for NCSA Telnet 2.3b8 is not available yet but... The keyboard mapping file is referred to as having 5 sets of 89 keys (= lines inthe file) with a later release adding another set for the extended keyboards. The sample with 2.3b8 has 5 sets of 89 pairs of lines with the second line for each element being 00. What does the pair represent? Where is the 6th set? I added a 6th set manually by using a copy of the 1st set. This stopped telnet complaining. I would like to use NCSA telnet for setting up a 5251 session to a System/38 via a Mitek gateway (TCP-IP to twinax). The Mitek does a lot of cute things like mapping ascii sequences to strange function keys on a 5251. It does this by using a local termcap file. I would like to have all function keys and shifted function keys on the PC generate unique 2 or 3 character escape sequences (The IBM of this world use 24 function keys!) in some kind of mix between key mapping and macro key definitions. I would prefer not to have to hack into the NCSA code if possible. 2.3b8 is almost there (for me) in that F1 to F10 generate escape sequences and shift-F1 to shift-F10 generate macros. Is it possible to have F11, F12, andshift-F11,F12 do similar things. Thanks for your time Warren Stokes. G&DWB, Australia