[Info-vax] unalphabetical help
Jan-Erik Soderholm
jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com
Tue Jan 8 03:01:59 EST 2013
Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote 2013-01-08 08:41:
> 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.
>
>
>
Argh...
That should have been "I have *no* problem...", of course.
Jan-Erik.
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