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- From: goldfish@cebu.sbi.com (P. Goldsmith)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
- Subject: Re: CPM Kermit for a TRS-80 Model 4
- Summary: term type is VT-52, keyboard is crippled
- Message-ID: <794@cebu.sbi.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 14:38:23 GMT
- References: <92358.162022CXKPV@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Organization: Salomon Brothers, Inc
- Lines: 20
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- In article <92358.162022CXKPV@ASUACAD.BITNET> CXKPV@ASUACAD.BITNET writes:
- >Does anyone know how to get cp/m kermit to pass an <ESC> sequence to the
- >computer it is connected to via the serial port. I need to send the clear char
- >acter to my school's cms system in order to get anywhere on it. If anyone has
- >used kermit to connect to a cms before, please let me know how you dealt with t
- >he PF keys and clear keyboard mapping problems.
-
- The Radio Shack CPM does not have an escape character on the keuyboard. Use
- the Ctrl-] character. That one works. As to the function keys, your CPM
- (Radio Shack variant) doesn't got em.
-
- I ended up learning the emacs mappings and assuming that I have a crippled
- keyboard, however, the screen behaves like a VT-52.
-
- This is passable for UNIX, horrible for VMS.
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