Using iPad with Gotomypc to work filepro at home

[Bob Rasmussen]

I have not. However, note that the 5250 protocol is very different from 
the asynchronous terminal model.

On Sat, 8 Sep 2012, Seth Fischer wrote:

> Have you guys tried the tn5250 for android? I don't know if there is an
> iPhone over. I have not but there appears to be function key support.
> 
> Seth
> On Sep 7, 2012 6:14 PM, "Bill Campbell" <bill at celestial.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 07, 2012, Walter Vaughan wrote:
> > >Richard Kreiss wrote:
> > >
> > >>No keyboards for any tablets exist with function keys. Both Apple and
> > Google left these out of their OS.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >'cause they (function keys) are nonnutritive, and definitely should not
> > >have a place at the table in the 2020's.
> > >
> > >You should see the looks I get teaching someone they have to hit F1 or
> > >F2 to edit characters, since they do know that F1 is supposed to bring
> > >up a Help screen in all the other programs they have ever used, it (F1
> > >to insert) breaks convention. Or rather the convention left it in the
> > dust.
> >
> > IMHO, the first idiocy was Microsoft using the ESC key alone to
> > cancel things.  ESC had been defined for years as 'ESCape to a
> > command', the first character in a multi-character command (which
> > is why FilePro properly used ESC-ESC).
> >
> > Radio Shack Scripsit used mnemonic control keys, ctrl-I to
> > insert, ctrl-D to delete, which were easy to remember and didn't
> > require a typist to move fingers off the home keys.
> >
> > Professional typists and data entry people really don't like to
> > have to move their fingers far to hit function keys, move mice,
> > and such.  Shortly after the IBM PC first came out, and people
> > would come into my X-department at 19th and K in D.C. to look at
> > machines for word processing.  Usually they brought their office
> > manager, senior secretary, and I would show them Scripsit on the
> > Model II with it's keyboard very similar to the IBM Selectric.
> > Then I would send them around the corner to the IBM product
> > center to see what they had to offer.  Invariably they would come
> > back screaming about the horrible IBM keyboards (we won't even
> > talk about Visicalc users and the PC 'keypad' without cursor keys :-)
> >
> > >Since we can remap keys, we really should have applications use normal
> > >conventions. I'm guilty of not doing this, and setting up nice keyboard
> > >controls that make sense to the end user. So shame on me.
> >
> > When I rewrote my large FilePro POS application using the Unify
> > RDBMS in the mid '80s, I also wrote my own screen handling
> > routines to replace the horrible Unify ones.  I used the FilePro
> > key mappings as that's what people were accustomed to, but added
> > various aliases to make things more efficient.
> >
> > These initially were the 4 PF keys above the numeric keypad on
> > Wyse-50s and other VT-100 style keyboards
> > F1 -> ctrl-I insert
> > F2 -> ctrl-D delete
> > F3 -> ctrl-O clear to end of field
> > ESC-ESC -> F4 save record
> >
> > Then on PC style keyboards I added these for the function block
> > immediately to the left of the keypad:
> > F1 -> Insert
> > F2 -> Delete (ctrl-C is the proper way to interrupt)
> > ESC-ESC -> PageDown within easy reach of the keypad.
> >
> > Bill
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