Re: ISO VT320 emulator with key-bindings for Oracle Forms

"Richard S. Shuford" wrote:
>
> "Frampton Steve R" wrote:
> > I'm in need of a VT320 emulator with key-bindings for Oracle
> > SQL*Forms; it needs to either run under Linux/Unix or [in dosemu].
>
> Keep in mind that character-cell terminals communicate their
> keystrokes by means of Escape sequences, as opposed to scan codes.
> You must set up your keyboard so that, when you press a key, it sends
> the proper Escape sequence to tell Oracle what action to perform.
>
> Some terminal-related information is archived at
>
> http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal_index.html
>
> (There is even a mention there of the Queens University Kermit
> program! :-)

There is another regular poster to this newsgroup who is the author of Kermit-95. I believe that he emulates the VT-220 function keys correctly so that it would work for you. Let's hope he is reading this now, and can reply if he has a version for UNIX.

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Scott G. Hall
GTE Government Systems
North Carolina Systems Center
email: Scott.Hall_at_GSC.GTE.Com Received on Thu Jun 03 1999 - 12:43:19 CDT