Re: special characters

You are absolutely correct, thank you!  I have read some of this before,
and I even pressed attention and went into those options earlier today. 
I obviously didn't see *ESC, and for some reason I thought the mapping
went the other way.  I didn't see enough keys, so I wrote it off.  (BTW,
the &T didn't work for me.)

This may also explain why F5 didn't work when I dialed into the router
and telnetted to the AS/400 (which has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with
tn5250).

The passthru is dialup which probably uses sna.  I just type "STRPASTHR
rmtlocname" and signon after it connects.

Scott Klement wrote:
> 
> Lets see if I understand this correctly....
> 
>    a) You use tn5250 to get to your AS/400.
>    b) Use use passthru (over SNA?) to get to a remote AS/400.
>    c) You use the "TELNET" client on the remote AS/400 to
>          log onto a router.
>    d) While on the router, you need to be able to send ESC
>          to the router.
> 
> This doesn't sound like a TN5250 issue to me -- it sounds like an AS/400
> telnet client issue.
> 
> I don't have a remote AS/400 to use passthru with, but... if I tn5250 to
> my AS/400, and then TELNET to another Unix box, this is what I need to do
> to send escape:
> 
> Hit ATTN (ctrl-A in TN5250)
> Select "6. Change VT100 (Primary) keyboard map"
> 
> Look for a function key that is mapped to "*ESC".   On my system, I have
> F5 mapped to *ESC, yours may be different.  It should look something like
> this:
> 
>    Function Key 5  . . . .   *ESC
> 
> (You can change your function keys to suit your needs.)
> 
> Now that I know that pressing F5 will send ESC, I hit F3 to get out
> of the VT100 keyboard map screen, and simply hit F5 whenever I want
> to send ESC.
> 
> Another idea:
> 
> If you prompt the TELNET command from your OS/400 command line (type
> ?TELNET)  you'll see that there are "Additional Parameters" to the
> telnet command.   Press F10 to see what they are, and you'll see that
> there is a 'Control character key'.  By default, it's set to the '&'
> character.
> 
> What this means is that if I want to send Ctrl-T to the remote system, I
> can simply type '&T' during my telnet session, and it'll send Ctrl-T.
> 
> All of these fun AS400 -> VT100-style workarounds should be documented in
> the TCP/IP Configuration & Reference manual (SC41-5420):
> 
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com:80/cgi-bin/bookmgr/DOCNUM/SC41-5420-03
> 
> Does this help, or am I completely off track?
> 
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Sean Porterfield wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to send characters such as Escape or CTRL-T through
> > tn5250?  I do a passthru to a remote AS/400 and need to telnet to a
> > router.  Unfortunately, the AS/400 telnet program is screen based, not
> > character based.  I get stuck in router menus if I can't send Escape
> > (CTRL-T would work, but Escape is better for me.)  Any chance of this
> > happening?
> >
> > TIA!
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