Telnet Pro emulator, LINUX and filePro (resolved)

[Jeff Harrison]

--- Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:42:37AM -0800, Jeff
> Harrison, the prominent pundit,
> witicized:
> > > At the point you use PuTTY, to trigger "Delete"
> in
> > > the context of issuing
> > > ^? itself, you will have to use Shift-Backspace.
> 
> > > Delete sends the
> > > vt100 "Erase" sequence (^[[3~ from memory), and
> > > there is -no- way to
> > > change PuTTY's behaviour in that respect.  It's
> a
> > > miracle he added
> > > shift-backspace.
> > > 
> > > You could use Bill's (and my concurring)
> suggestion
> > > of using ^C, and just
> > > change the termcap to reflect the right key
> sequence
> > > to display for break.
> > > 
> > 
> > Or just don't use the vt100 emulation.
> 
> I'm not sure you understood what I was saying, Jeff.
>  I was saying that
> PuTTY itself -only- does "Erase" on the Delete key,
> and cannot be changed.
> PuTTY doesn't let you fully remap the keys.  It
> doesn't matter what
> server-side emulation you're using; if you use
> PuTTY, Delete returns the
> "Erase" code.
> 
> mark->

I guess I was not clear.  When I tell putty to do the
"sco function keys and keypad" then the delete key
sends a hex 7f 

I'm using the .56 release of putty.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest ways to generate code for filePro exports and imports.


	
		
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