Re: tn5250 Questions . . .

["Mario Pesce" <mario@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I read the mail below by Jason M. Felice and I would be interested to have
additional news about the RPG compiler for Linux.

 Can you please tell me where I can find some info and how I can try the
product?

Thank you and best regards

Mario Pesce
Independent Consultant
http://www.datamission.co.uk (Computers, Internet and Training)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason M. Felice" <jfelice@cronosys.com>
To: <LINUX5250@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: tn5250 Questions . . .


> Scott Klement wrote:
> >
> > Hmmmm... I know the GTK version was going to do its own keymapping...
but
> > I believe Jason has simply been too busy to work on it.
>
> Basically, yes.  The good news, tho, is that I have two other
> curses-based programs that I'm working
> on that need a generic way to do key bindings - one of them is a
> PostgreSQL browser/Query IDE that
> I use constantly for my day job (I wrote it in about a day), and the
> other is an RPG code editor for my RPG compiler.  I've come up with a
> sort of light-weight scripting language to do it over the last three or
> four days.
>
> Although it's not complete, I will evaluate plugging it in to the tn5250
> code when it is.  It might be a little too much baggage for the tn5250
> emulator (read: this would probably replace the
> configuration-file-reading code and make python bindings - uh - ugly),
> or it may not...
>
> On the upside, it will add the ability to do sophisticated, interactive
> macros.
>
> -Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
>
> >
> > Other than that, I don't know of any work...    For a situation where an
> > external terminal is connecting, I don't see how this COULD work.  Not
all
> > the keypresses generate unique codes that it could look for...
> >
> > For example, how would you make the left ctrl key be error-reset?  By
> > itself, it doesn't send any escape codes, unless you modify your
keyboard
> > map (ala loadkeys or kbdcontrol under FreeBSD)
> >
> > With an external terminal, that's not really an option.
> >
> > Sure, if you wanted to make this a Linux-specific deal, you could
> > interface with the keyboard directly.  But that wouldn't help the
external
> > terminal issue...
> >
> > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Jasper O'Malley wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Scott Klement wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > First thing to understand is...   tn5250 doesn't do any keyboard
mapping.
> > > > At all.  None.  It's done by Linux and the terminal.
> > >
> > > This reminds me, someone once talked about getting tn5250 to do
internal
> > > keymapping, a la the BSD tn3270 app. This setup seems to make more
sense
> > > to me, in that it would allow one to correctly report one's actual
> > > terminal type (or emulated terminal type) to the operating system, and
> > > have the app map 5250 keys to your terminal's keys. Does anyone know
if
> > > any work has been done on this, yet? Just out of curiosity. I'd be
lying
> > > if I said I had the time to do it m'self, but I was just wondering ;)
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Mick
> > >
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