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Properly Configuring Terminal Emulation in Unix?

Posted by Cliff on from the termcap-terminfo-terminal-headache dept.

Jobe_br asks: "I've recently come across a need for a way of connecting to a SCO Unix box with full SCO-ANSI emulation (so that I can send F1-F12 commands and ASCII line art appears as lines, not strange foreign letters). After checking out the Terminal-HOWTO at linuxdoc.org I came away with no clearer understanding of what I need to do. I can pretty much pick any 'ole terminal emulator for win32 and get what I need, but no matter what I do to fiddle with my xterms/eterms/vts I can't get things to go. Is this not facilitated under Linux?"

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  1. Re:I had this problem too by Marc+Boucher · · Score: 2, Interesting
    our solution run CRT

    I'm running SCRT under windoze to access my linux Firewall. I had to edit the keymap to have it work correctly with the F1-F10 keys. But I'm still having problem with many keys. Can you help me with this?
    I'm using mc to browse-edit-start. I still can't use CTRL+ENTER to copy the file name in the command line. CTRL-PGUP, CTRL-PGDN, KeyPad+, KeyPad-, are keys impossible to pass correctly.

    A more broader question. Does anyone know what is the syntax used to pass all these control keys from the terminal to the server? CTRL keys, ALT keys... Is there a prefix code? one code for the control key + one code for the key, ESC-encoded or not?