Re: Porting scs2* to windows

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Jeremy Stent wrote:
>
> For the random filename, I believe that in windows there is an OS
> call that will return a unique filename.  I haven't used it in a
> while, but I seem to remember that you could specify some properties
> of it (starting letters / extension?) and have it return the rest.  I
> know that this would be OS-Specific, but the appropriate code could
> always be wrapped in an #ifdef.

Sounds similar to mktemp() / mkstemp() in Unix.   Do you know what
the function that you call is called?   I started looking for something
after James mentioned /dev/urandom, but couldn't find it.

>
> I haven't tried the latest windows patch, but the one from last week
> seems quite nice.  I was just wondering if it could somehow be made
> to respond to the Ctrl key.  My company currently provides Client
> Access, which works well enough, (except after the last upgrade when
> it wanted to call some program that we had lost permissions on) and I
> like the Right Ctrl to be the Newline.

I think I have the Right-Ctrl mapped to Field-Exit.  Keyboard mapping is
on my to-do list, but if you want a quick-fix (and you don't mind changing
source code) you can do it this way:

1) Open an MS-DOS prompt
2) go to the Win32 directory:
        cd \tn5250-0.16.3w\win32
3) edit the Windows Terminal source file:
        edit winterm.c
4) Search for this string:  keyup2msg

5) A few lines below the first occurrance of "keyup2msg" there's
     a line that looks like this:
   { 0,          VK_CONTROL,      K_FIELDEXIT, 0, 1 },

6) Change that line to read:
   { 0,          VK_CONTROL,      K_NEWLINE,   0, 1 },


   Or you can make it K_ENTER if you'd prefer it to work line an enter
   key instead of a newline key, etc.

7) Save your changes, and (back at DOS prompt) type:
        make