[Info-vax] unalphabetical help

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Simon Clubley wrote 2013-01-08 01:39:
> On 2013-01-07, Ken Fairfield <ken.fairfield at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Also, in reference to an earlier query in this thread, we
>> were using PuTTY to access our Linux systems at Cerner.  A
>> couple of the Cerner applications, which were developed on
>> VMS, expect a PF3 and similar in certain cases.  We couldn't
>> get PuTTY to send that. (Noting the earlier reference to
>> needing to put the keypad in application mode, I'm not sure
>> any of us knew that we could do that in PuTTY, and neither
>> did our Cerner support folks.  We're using Reflection now,
>> and I don't think there's a motivation to go back and see if
>> we can get PuTTY to work...)
>>
>
> That was me. Thanks for the confirmation I'm not going nuts or
> missed something really stupid. :-)
>
> If the keypad goes into application keypad mode (ie: when using EVE)
> then PF1 through PF4 (and hence the EDT keypad) work just fine; I use
> the EDT keypad in EVE daily from a PuTTY session.
>
> It's just that those escape codes are not sent when the keypad is in
> normal keypad mode.
>
> Simon.
>

FWIW, I have problem using plain EDT either with PuTTY (V0.58).

Jan-Erik.