Problems with SET GOLD KEY

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2 total messages Started by Lawrence Giltner Sun, 08 Nov 1992 11:33

#71

Author: Lawrence Giltner
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 11:33

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I have run across an anomoly. (That or my ignorance is showing B-{ )

I read all the postings about the GOLD-KEY definitions and decided to
try defining some.  I have all the Ctrl keys defined that were not
"reserved" by TPU or VMS.  So I tried defining Ctrl-X as gold and got no
result.  So I did a Set NoGold, undefined another key that I had defined
(Ctrl-U RESTORE), and defined it as gold.  I picked Ctrl-U because it
seemed that the default definition of Ctrl-X was Restore and I would
learn to use it.

Now here is what is funny. Both Ctrl-X and Ctrl-U acted as gold keys.
When I did a Set NoGold, both keys did the Erase To The Start Of Line.
This happened even when I used the vanilla TPU. Are these two keys tied
together somehow?

Second experiment.  Restarted TPU (customized), undefined Ctrl-U, Set
Gold Ctrl-U, and now Ctrl-X is now a gold key also.  Did a Set NoGold
and both keys now Erase To Start Of Line.

I really only need ONE gold key.

I am on VMS 5.5 with TPU v2.6.  At this time I am dialed in from home
using Procomm+ 2.0 with a vt320 emulation.

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Re: Problems with SET GOLD KEY

#73

Author: David C. Pheanis
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 20:40

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In article <1992Nov8.053338.382@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu>, ldgiltne@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu (Lawrence Giltner) writes...
> 
>I read all the postings about the GOLD-KEY definitions and decided to
>try defining some.  I have all the Ctrl keys defined that were not
>"reserved" by TPU or VMS.  So I tried defining Ctrl-X as gold and got no
>result.  So I did a Set NoGold, undefined another key that I had defined
>(Ctrl-U RESTORE), and defined it as gold.  I picked Ctrl-U because it
>seemed that the default definition of Ctrl-X was Restore and I would
>learn to use it.
> 
>Now here is what is funny. Both Ctrl-X and Ctrl-U acted as gold keys.
>When I did a Set NoGold, both keys did the Erase To The Start Of Line.
>This happened even when I used the vanilla TPU. Are these two keys tied
>together somehow?

     VMS  returns  the  same  code  for  both  ^U and ^X.  You don't have a
problem with TPU; you just managed to pick the two  keys that VMS treats as
(almost) the same, so TPU sees the same key regardless  of  which  one  you
press.

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