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Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

Title:DEC Rdb against the World
Moderator:HERON::GODFRIND
Created:Fri Jun 12 1987
Last Modified:Thu Feb 23 1995
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1348
Total number of notes:5438

1179.0. "Natural, Software AG and function keys " by NOT003::DENTI (Ian Dent @NOT, Nottingham, UK) Tue Aug 11 1992 16:56

    A customer is porting a Natural (from Software AG) application from
    an IBM system to a Vax.
    
    Natural uses function keys a lot and the application has been written
    to use F1 to F24 to move between functions.
    
    On moving to the Vax the customer wishes to use Vt320 terminals
    and wants to use the F1 to F20 keys along the top of the keyboard.
    
    HOWEVER, there appears to be no way to turn off the terminal
    interpreting the F1 to F5 keys as HOLD, PRINT, SETUP, etc.. Thus
    the program never knows that F1 to F5 have been pressed.
                      
    I know this problem comes up at most Natural (VMS) sites. How has
    it been solved?
    
    Ideas please?
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