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On Wednesday, November 21, 2001, at 12:51 AM, Scott Klement wrote: > > > 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... :) OK. I'll write it up nice, then...... Right now it seems to be working, save for that F14 thing. xt5250 is using the regular (keyboard) f-keys. In tn5250 I was using the <esc> key followed by <1 through => or those shifted to get a command key. And this worked save for the F14.... > >> 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. > Shift-2 is @ here also. i tried with numb lock off and on. Is there any way to trap the keystrokes to see what is going on? > 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. > cool. As i am clueless, where do i look at it? >> 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". > XDarwin is the piece (really technical term there) which allows X Windows to run on Mac OSX. Darwin is the opens source kernel. The curses implementation on Mac OSX I have seen described as "primitive". In earlier efforts to install stuff I had ncurses complaining about the absence of various components. I did the Xwindows install, and it build like a charm. I realise that they should not be interdependant, but I cannot explain (or remember) beyond that.... > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Linux 5250 Development Project (LINUX5250) mailing list > To post a message email: LINUX5250@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/linux5250 > or email: LINUX5250-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250. >
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