Re: Spanish Keyboard Problems

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Juan Rivas wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> 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).

The option to do this in 0.16.1 is +underscores not -u.   The man page
should explain that.

> 
> - 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 ¿?
> 
> - Functions F21, F22, F23 and F24, does not work using Shift + F9,
> Shift + F10, Shift + F11 and Shift + F12.
>  It works using: F21 -> ESC + Shif 8 F22 -> ESC + Shift 9 F23 -> ESC +
> Shift 0 F24 -> I don't know.
> 

I've never tried a spanish keyboard...  

If you want to try the settings for a US keyboard and see how well they
work you can go into the linux/ directory in your distribution, theres a
"README" file that contains information about keyboard mapping.  It tells
you that you need to be doing a tic "5250.terminfo" and "loadkeys
us5250.map" and changing your TERM enviornment variable to 5250.

If the US settings don't work, you'll need to create your own spanish
version of these settings.   (You can use the US version as an example)
If you do this, please send us a copy of your finished work so we can
include it in the distribution, and other people with spanish keyboards
will be able to use it.

Thanks


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