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Conference unxa::cde

Title:CDE on Digital UNIXonment - CDE
Notice:CDE on Digital UNIX - for CDE on VMS, please see Note 1.3
Moderator:UNXA::SYSTEM
Created:Tue Nov 23 1993
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:660
Total number of notes:2674

591.0. "F1 & dtterm" by EVTAI1::ROCHE () Tue Jan 28 1997 06:35


	Is it possible to have the F1 key working as CTRL/S CTRL/Q in a dtterm
	on UNIX V4.0 (it works as intended in a DXterm)

	Thanks for help
	Flavie
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591.1NopeUNXA::BEUTENo good deed ever goes unpunished...Wed Jan 29 1997 12:589
>>	Is it possible to have the F1 key working as CTRL/S CTRL/Q in a dtterm
>>	on UNIX V4.0 (it works as intended in a DXterm)

	Support for the F1-F5 keys was added as a hack to dxterm to emulate
	the keyboard behavior of the old VT220/VT320 series keyboards.
	You won't find that ability in either xterm or dtterm.


591.2hack?GERUND::WOLFEI'm going to huff, and puff, and blow your house downWed Feb 12 1997 23:5914
>	Support for the F1-F5 keys was added as a hack to dxterm to emulate
>	the keyboard behavior of the old VT220/VT320 series keyboards.
>	You won't find that ability in either xterm or dtterm.

I completely disagree and take issue with this. Dxterm emulates
Vt*'s (100's, 200's, 300's, and even some features from 400's I think). 
Support for F1 in a Vt200 or later terminal emulator is a feature, 
not a "hack". Xterm claims only to emulate a vt100 (and tek 4014) so it can 
get away with this. dtterm claims to emulate "ANSI X3.64-1979 and ISO
6429:1992(E)" terminals "like a vt220". Every PC terminal emulator
I've used correctly mapped F1 to Hold Screen. Most third party
terminals do as well. I consider this a bug in dtterm. 

		Pete