[Info-vax] PC/VT Keyboarrd Mapping

[Paul Richards]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> 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

Steven (and others): I have found another laptop which has a numeric
keypad. I've copied over FreeAXP/OpenVMS and certainly the F1 - F10
keys now work as expected with, say, VTFM.

It seems that, depending on whether NUM-LOCK is on or off, certain keys
e.g./, *, -, emit different responses.

-- 
Paul
Melbourne, Australia

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