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hello,
I'm trying to see a way to use my mac for work stuff.

AT work, we have a unix system that uses a windows terminal client to
access it.

I can connect to the terminal server from my mac, but when I try to use
the function keys (F1-F12) none of them work! They seem to only work
from a windows machine.

Is there something I can buy or do so I can make my mac's function keys
work like a windows workstation?

If I can do this, I can get away from having to use windows to get the
terminal client at work.

Thanks,

Dave

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In <1145148173.951277.106320@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> pheonix1t@
gmail.com wrote:

hello,
I'm trying to see a way to use my mac for work stuff.

AT work, we have a unix system that uses a windows terminal client to
access it.

I can connect to the terminal server from my mac, but when I try to
use the function keys (F1-F12) none of them work! They seem to only
work from a windows machine.

Is there something I can buy or do so I can make my mac's function
keys work like a windows workstation?

If I can do this, I can get away from having to use windows to get the terminal client at work.

Thanks,

Dave

Apple's Terminal sends an escape sequence for the function keys. For
example pressing F1 sends 'escape O P'. Presumably the program on the
server is expecting some other sequence. If you can find out what it is, perhaps by looking at the Windows terminal program, you can easily
change it in Terminal's windows settings.

--
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
http://roger.geek.nz/ ________________________________________________________________________
No Silicon Heaven? Preposterous! Where would all the calculators go?

Kryten, from the Red Dwarf episode "The Last Day"
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In article <20060416125745535+1200@News.Individual.NET>,
Roger Johnstone <news2006@roger.geek.nz> wrote:

In <1145148173.951277.106320@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> pheonix1t@ gmail.com wrote:

hello, I'm trying to see a way to use my mac for work stuff.

AT work, we have a unix system that uses a windows terminal client
to access it.

I can connect to the terminal server from my mac, but when I try to
use the function keys (F1-F12) none of them work! They seem to
only work from a windows machine.

Is there something I can buy or do so I can make my mac's function
keys work like a windows workstation?

If I can do this, I can get away from having to use windows to get
the terminal client at work.

Apple's Terminal sends an escape sequence for the function keys. For
example pressing F1 sends 'escape O P'. Presumably the program on the
server is expecting some other sequence. If you can find out what it
is, perhaps by looking at the Windows terminal program, you can
easily change it in Terminal's windows settings.

With more specifics about the Unix system being accessed, the question
might be more specifically answered.
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On 2006-04-16, pheonix1t@gmail.com <pheonix1t@gmail.com> wrote:

I can connect to the terminal server from my mac, but when I try to use
the function keys (F1-F12) none of them work! They seem to only work
from a windows machine.

Try running in 'screen'. In other words, open a terminal window in Terminal.app, run 'screen' in that terminal window, then run whatever
command you use to connect to your server.

You can also try changing your TERM setting to nsterm. In bash:

export TERM=nsterm

In tcsh

setenv TERM nsterm

If you want to set the default TERM type to be nsterm you need to use
the 'defaults' command, since for some reason Terminal.app's preferences
don't include that option:

defaults write com.apple.Terminal TermCapString nsterm
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In article <-aCdnfU7ScPB8t_ZnZ2dnUVZ_tidnZ2d@comcast.com>,
D P Schreber <schreberdp@rayban.net> wrote:

On 2006-04-16, pheonix1t@gmail.com <pheonix1t@gmail.com> wrote:

I can connect to the terminal server from my mac, but when I try to use
the function keys (F1-F12) none of them work! They seem to only work
from a windows machine.

Try running in 'screen'. In other words, open a terminal window in Terminal.app, run 'screen' in that terminal window, then run whatever
command you use to connect to your server.

You can also try changing your TERM setting to nsterm. In bash:

export TERM=nsterm

In tcsh

setenv TERM nsterm

If you want to set the default TERM type to be nsterm you need to use
the 'defaults' command, since for some reason Terminal.app's preferences don't include that option:

defaults write com.apple.Terminal TermCapString nsterm

Of course, there's always the simple use of .profile, .bashrc and
similar files to set the TERM variable rather than changing it that way.
And Terminal does support specifying the .term file as well as remapping
keys.
--
Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, Alabama
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On 2006-04-17, Steve W. Jackson <stevewjackson@charter.net> wrote:

You can also try changing your TERM setting to nsterm.

Of course, there's always the simple use of .profile, .bashrc and
similar files to set the TERM variable rather than changing it that way.

If he really wants a different TERM value all the time, it's certainly
simpler and cleaner to change the Terminal.app preference. That's what
it's for. If he only wants the new setting in one specific context,
best to do it only in that context. Setting it in a shellrc is
suboptimal either way.

And of course changing TERM was my second recommendation. The best and simplest approach is trivial: run the connection in 'screen'. Voila,
standard function key behavior. No preference changes, no .term file
(though he could make one running 'screen ssh <whatever>' as a
shortcut), no shellrc changes. The 'screen' command has other nice
features as well -- anyone running command line apps should get familiar
with it.
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