Re: [Thinstation-developer] tn5250, terminfo

[Mike E. <thi...@gm...>]

On 7/13/06, Alex Mauer <ha...@ha...> wrote:
>
> Hans Bonfigt wrote:
> > Alex Mauer:
>
> > Simply determine character sequence is delivered when shift-tab is
> pressed
> > and define a 'kbtab' entry within the corresponding termdef-file.
> >
> > 'kbtab' isn't documented but will work as well.
>
> Aha, your message has inspired me to do further digging.  Upon doing so
> I have found that the busybox keymaps do not support strings.  Since the
> default kernel keymap doesn't send anything with a shift tab (nor
> F21-F24), I am partly screwed.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to add strings to keysyms with busybox, or
> otherwise within the environment provided by TS?
>
> Alternatively, I know it is possible to do this at the kernel source
> level by editing the kernel's default keymap.  Is there anything special
> I need to do in order to compile a kernel for TS (at least a default
> config file would be a helpful start) or can I just grab the kernel.org
> kernel sources of the appropriate version and go with it?
>
> In any case, I'd like to see this fixed in the default thinstation
> kernel (it can be done without affecting any keys by default; the
> relevant strings just need to be added).  I can supply a patch, if
> necessary.  Is this something the TS project would be interested in?


Certainly - unless it bloats the kernel significantly. I guess not. So, yes
please continue your efford. I'm sorry we haven't got a well working tn5250,
but it's one of those applications we have a hard time to test due to lack
of server access (and specific knowledge) :-(

We really should have a 3270 client too, but same problem.

Mike


Thanks
> -Alex Mauer "hawke"
>

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