[Info-vax] PC/VT Keyboarrd Mapping

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-06-22 09:08:51 +0000, Paul Richards said:

> I'm running OpenVMS on the FreeAXP emulator with PuTTY, which is 
> bundled with FreeAXP.Unfortunately my PC keyboard does not make it easy 
> to use VMS software like editors, e.g. EDT, as the keycodes emitted do 
> not match up with those expected from a VT100/200 etc.0
> 
> Is there a way of somehow mapping the PC keyboard so that the keycodes 
> emitted match up with those of the VT100/200?
> 
> I don't have a numeric keypad on my laptop but I have function keys F1
> - F12 and the usual QWERTY keyboard.

Check the PuTTY docs to see how they map the keypad keys, in the 
absence of a numeric keypad.

http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.53b/htmldoc/Chapter4.html#4.4.3

Using a keyboard without a numeric keypad is going to mean figuring out 
how to use the tools without needing the keypad, or figuring out which 
chord the keyboard uses to generate the particular keypress, or getting 
an add-on numeric keypad that the emulator supports.  That's (usually) 
in the editor documentation.  Sometimes the box — and it's been a 
~decade since I've particularly used a Windows box — has a way to 
enable the keypad within the keyboard.  Windows from an aeon or two ago 
used NUMLOCK or shift-NUMLOCK for that embedded keypad, IIRC.

> I'm not sure if this a VT question or a PuTTY question. If the latter 
> I'd appreciate any links to possible solutions.

Search the comp.os.vms archives for key mapping discussions and 
terminal emulator discussions — there are quite a few of these over the 
years.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.vms/9DIFTtYLpn0/elmyIr62NwAJ
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.vms/HtUX-GuyqbM/0NOjo9V9yTkJ
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.vms/pUQW5AJbEh0/FPZSoo9vEQIJ



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