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This is my first ever posting to USENET and I hope that this is
an appropriate question in the appropriate group.

The question is: How do you program the function keys on a VT320?

I have an application where I want to have the F6 through F20 keys
programmed with certain strings, so that when the operators hit
these keys this string is sent to the computer.  I want the main
program that starts up the application to send to the terminal the
Escape sequences to program the keys.

However the book that came with our terminals and a few phone calls
to DEC have not resulted in a sequence that works when I type them
into the terminal when it is in local.

The sequence that I've been trying is:

EscP0;1|17/4849Esc\    to program F6 with "HI" in 7 bit mode

Anyone see anything that I'm doing wrong?   

Thanks in advance!