Re: Field Exit

["Brian E. Seppanen" <bseppanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After you've made the changes to the us5250.map or whatever keyboard map
your using,  make sure you're reloading the keyboard file.  We use a little
script called 5250 which we've made executable.  chmod 755 5250

As a sidenote we specify in /etc/inittab that  rungetty will spawn the 5250
script as the login and not the normal mingetty.

Basically all 5250 is is a wrapper program that does a couple of things.

export TERM=5250
loadkeys /path/to/keymap/us5250.map
/usr/local/bin/tn5250 as400 -s BLAH -u

When we change the keyboard file all we do is hit ctrl-q and it does the
script again, basically reloading the keyboard file.

I hope that works for you.  I think all you're missing is doing the
loadkeys.  Of course this all only applies to tn5250, and not xt5250.  If
you're using xt5250 than this won't help, you have to modify the keymap
elsewhere notably .Xdefaults.

Hope that helps.

Brian Seppanen
bseppanen@bellmemorial.org
----- Original Message -----
From: <wpadgett@camrosetech.com>
To: <LINUX5250@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 2:48 PM
Subject: Field Exit


>

> Hello again guys!
>
> I have read all the email that has been coming through with regards to
> mapping a Field Exit key. I have tried changing the us5250.map file to
> reflect the changes that I need. I have changed the keypad's plus key to
> map to control_k with no luck. I don't know if there is something I'm
> missing or my head is too hard for it to soak in. <grin> I'm almost to the
> point of going ahead and buying fiber to twinax repeaters from Black Box
to
> allow us to put 5250 dumb terminals out on the plant floor. I don't
> particularly want to do this but if I can't get this to work, I have no
> choice.
>
> Thanks again for the great product and all the help.
>
> Wally
>
>
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