Configuring function keys for vt102

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:48:05AM -0700, Bob Rasmussen wrote:
> It is not clear to me whether this person is working a) ON the Linux 
> console, b) connecting to it from a dumb terminal, or c) connecting to it 
> from a terminal emulator. I'll give some hints along each road:

Well, you wrote mostly the answer I was going to, so I'll just kibitz.

> b) A true VT102 has only 4 function keys, labeled PF1 through PF4. 
> Probably not a good choice.

Yeah, but there's a fairly standard set of extensions...

> c) A terminal emulator will allow you to choose a variety of emulations, 
> which must be understood by the filePro system. The most common choices, I 
> believe, or SCOANSI or linux.

Putty defaults to xterm, for which there is a standard fptermcap entry
as well, I believe (I don't think we added that); you *do* need to
manually set the keyboard map to xterm instead of its default.  That
entry also doesn't include PV, though if you put it in it appears to
work properly.

Cheers,
-- jra
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