Re: Spanish Keyboard Problems

[Sean Porterfield <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Juan Rivas wrote:

> I use tn5250-0.16.1 version under console and I have a SuSE 6.4 Linux 
>distribution. 
> I have some problems with tn5250 emulation using spanish keyboard (284). 
> My execution command is: 
> 
> tn5250 map=284 env.TERM=IBM-3477-FC myhostname
> 
> and the problems are:
> 
> - I don't see typical underlines or undescores in fields entries 
> (I tried to use -u option in tn5250 command, but it does not work).

Options changed at some version.  Try -underscores or +underscores instead
of -u.

> - When I use Field- in signed numeric fields, for example, with the 
>following: 
> Key 1 + (Esc M) -> appear 1} in field entry. When I press the Key "Intro", 
>appear -10 ¿?

There were a lot of problems with numeric fields in earlier versions.
(Still are a few problems.)  Try a newer version, perhaps.

> - Functions F21, F22, F23 and F24, does not work using Shift + F9, Shift + 
>F10, 

You said you are running from the console.  Did you run loadkeys to get
the extra keys?  (It's been too long since I used the console version to
remember the syntax, but I'm sure someone else can answer that.)  I'm
trapped in Windows right now, so I can't check mine.

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