Re: Just a thank you note.

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Myles Toomey wrote:
>
> Sure. The only problem there is that i am working off a note book and do
> not have a full size keyboard.
> Tell me what to do and I shall go for it....

That's fine... I guess I'm just asking that whatever you end up doing
to make things work nicely for you, that you contribute that information
so that the next OS X user can try it, too... :)

> I already am having a problem with the F12 key, as the same key is used
> to pop the CD player, and it does not seem to be sending to the screen
> at all. Not a tn5250 problem, I understand. I'll check on the apple page.

Yep.  That's the sort of thing that would be nice to document so that
the next guy will know how to handle it. :)

> The other issue I noticed in tn5250 (as opposed to xt5250, see below) is
> that something was up with my F14 key. I went into an old version of
> BPCS which requires that you press F14 to get off the splash screen.
> While <esc> 3 worked as f3, and <esc>-^ (shifted 6) worked as f18 in
> pdm, the 400 did not seem to recognise f14 when on the BPCS splash
> screen. What am I doing wrong?

On PC keyboards, "shift-2" is the '@' symbol.   Is this also the case
on your Mac?  If not, this might be the issue.

This is where a termcap or terminfo would be helpful.  If you set the
termcap entry for "F14" correctly, then Shift-F2 will do the job.

> the process i went through to install was -
> get Xdarwin from XonX and install it
> get xfree86 from sourceforge and install it.
> get ncurses from sourceforge and install it
> get tn5250.....
>
> I seem to recall that ncurses wanted X11R6 for some reason, but i may be
> wrong....

Strange.  ncurses shouldn't need X11.  (I'm using the terms "X11" and
"X11R6" and "XFree86" interchangably here...)  I'm not familiar with
Xdarwin.  Maybe that's what required X11?    Tn5250 only requires X11
when running it with "xt5250".