[Info-vax] unalphabetical help

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In article <kcgjpn$lj$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>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.

I got PuTTY working here.  Some issues with fonts in the font path caused
it some pain.

Anyway, it fails VTTEST miserably on the very first test.  You can see for
yourself if you have VTTEST ('twas available on the freeware CDs and can be
had from the DECUSlib.com site) or you could telnet to twenty-four dot one-
hundred eighty-seven dot two-hundred thirteen dot twenty-eight (also known
as the 'great-escape' in my domain).  Login using username 'VTTEST' and you
can run through the VTTEST suit test. 
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