Telnet and function keys

Fredrik Gustavsson

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Jun 17, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/17/97

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I finally got my own AS/400 this monday and it was no problem at all making
it work. I enabled telnet to be able to work from home where I have a
UNIX computer directly connected to the modem.

I currently use XTerm from X-Windows to telnet using the vt100 emulation.
After a while i figured out that F1-F10 works just fine. Enter is Enter
and Field Exit is Ctrl-X. I also found out the following Ctrl-combinations:

Ctrl-A Attention
Ctrl-R Reset
Ctrl-D Page Down
Ctrl-U Page Up (i think)
Ctrl-P Print Screen
Ctrl-H Backspace
...and probably some more

I also noticed that I can use the F-keys by pressing ESC and then 1-0
depending on which F-key I want to send.

The question is; How do I send F-keys F11-F24? What command sequence
should those keys send?

Does anybody btw know which ports (tcp or udp) client access for 95/NT
uses to communicate over TCP/IP with the AS/400?

/Fredrik

Stuart Feigin

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Jun 18, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/18/97

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Fredrik Gustavsson wrote:
>
> The question is; How do I send F-keys F11-F24? What command sequence
> should those keys send?

For F13-24, press then ESC key, and then hold the shift key while you
use one of the 1-0 keys. ESC Shift 1 produces F13, ESC shift 2 produces
F14, and so on.
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ChristopheTran

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Jun 18, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/18/97

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Run DSPVTMAP on your AS/400 box to others keys mapping.

Fredrik Gustavsson <gu...@dagmar.boden.se> a écrit dans l'article
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> I finally got my own AS/400 this monday and it was no problem at all
making
> it work. I enabled telnet to be able to work from home where I have a
> UNIX computer directly connected to the modem.
>
> I currently use XTerm from X-Windows to telnet using the vt100 emulation.
> After a while i figured out that F1-F10 works just fine. Enter is Enter
> and Field Exit is Ctrl-X. I also found out the following
Ctrl-combinations:
>
> Ctrl-A Attention
> Ctrl-R Reset
> Ctrl-D Page Down
> Ctrl-U Page Up (i think)
> Ctrl-P Print Screen
> Ctrl-H Backspace
> ...and probably some more
>
> I also noticed that I can use the F-keys by pressing ESC and then 1-0
> depending on which F-key I want to send.
>

> The question is; How do I send F-keys F11-F24? What command sequence
> should those keys send?
>

cancilla

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Jun 20, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/20/97

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A rather nice feature of the AS/400 telnet is a keyboard map that you can
display after you logon to the box.
The menu is option 12 I believe on the main menu which interestingly enough
is on the second page of the menu so if you don't know how to roll-up,
you'll never see it. I believe CTRL-A and CRTL-B are the roll keys on a
standard VT100.

There is also an OS/400 command that allows you to map the keyboard for a
particular device type. I've found it by pressing F4 from the command line
and go cmdkey from the command line, I'm sorry but I don't remember the
exact command name. There is a display and a change keyboard mapping
exclusively for telnet clients. The display command does NOT appear on the
menu for 5250 devices (only telnet vt100s), but the commands to change the
keyboard are allways available. (This is on a V3R2 and a V3R7 machine, I
don't know about previous releases).

Hope this helps.

Bob C.

Stuart Feigin <sfe...@us.oracle.com> wrote in article
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> Fredrik Gustavsson wrote:
> >
> > The question is; How do I send F-keys F11-F24? What command sequence
> > should those keys send?
>