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  • Re: MacOS X Terminal Utility keypad character settings ?

    From Kilgallen@Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) to comp.sys.mac.system on Wednesday, July 23, 2003 22:18:21
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    In article <harris-4FB43E.22170823072003@juggl7.zk3.dec.com>, Bob Harris <harris@zk3.dec.com> writes:
    In article <YP+19SX27Cis@eisner.encompasserve.org>,
    Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote:

    I have solved my problem. The Emulation view (not the Keyboard view)
    within the Terminal Inspector opened by the Window Settings menu choice
    (not a menu choice called Terminal Inspector) has a (default off) checkbox >> called Strict VT-100 keypad behavior.

    I was premature with that analysis. The "bottom" of the numeric keypad
    seems to work but PF1-PF4 do not, and those are essential for ANUnews.

    It includes tab'ed
    terminals just like tab'ed browsing. I did have some problems using the application keypad with my Pismo (Powerbook G3/500/Firewire/Bronze keyboard), but I'm told that there are others that have used it successfully, so I'm assuming that maybe it is something with the laptop
    and using the 'fn' key as yet another key modifier. If you have a
    regular keyboard with a separate application keypad it may work for you.

    I will keep an eye out for commercial software aimed at OSX, but until
    the operating system stabilizes a bit I don't know that I could trust
    a third party add-on to work.

    And if you install X11, you get xterm (the open source one which
    includes color and a rather good vt emulation, including the line
    drawing characters that NOTES outputs).

    Actually, Terminal has worked for me on Notes output just fine, but I do
    not use the PF1-PF4 keys with Notes.

    But I have a confession to make. I'm still using Mac OS Classic BetterTelnet. I have my reasons, some of which have to do with the way
    I tunnel into work, and some of it comes from the "if it isn't broke,
    don't fix it" approach to changing.

    I was interested in some of the new features, but I guess this will take
    an additional Macintosh for the forseeable future. I have a spot left
    on the KVM, with existing choices being 7.5.5, 8.1 and 9.1.
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