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Article #2579Re: VT220 Info Request
From: Pontus Hedman
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 1990 00:21
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 1990 00:21
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In article <48400008@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> turner@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes:
>How do you set the function keys? Are they even programmable?
To some degree; see below.
>Why don't F11(ESC) F12(BS) and F13(LF) emit what they claim to?
They do when you're not in VT200 mode.
>Please don't tell me to RTFM, as I don't have one. Yep, I've
>got those old familiar second hand blues.
Same here, but somewhere sometime, I don't know how, I found out
that you can program the function keys when *shifted*.
Here's an example. The following sequence makes shift-F6 and shift-F7 send
"hello" and "world" respectively (replace "^[" with ESC):
^[P1;1|17/68656C6C6F;18/776F726C64^[\
The "17" is for shift-F6 and the hex that follows is the ascii for "hello".
The "18" is for shift-F7 and the hex that follows is the ascii for "world".
Strange terminal, it is. By the way you can also get ESC by pressing
control-3 (the 3 on the top row, not the numeric keypad). In fact, try
control in combination with the other number on the top row. Most do
interesting things.
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Pontus Hedman rph@sq.com {uunet|utzoo}!sq!rph
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Newsgroups: comp.terminals Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!sq!rph From: rph@sq.sq.com (Pontus Hedman) Subject: Re: VT220 Info Request Message-ID: <1990Mar5.002124.13106@sq.sq.com> Reply-To: rph@sq.com (Pontus Hedman) Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto References: <48400008@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 90 00:21:24 GMT