[lug] [OT!] Help with rsx/DEC

rm at fabula.de rm at fabula.de
Mon Apr 4 04:15:59 MDT 2005


Hello list,

mostly OT (but Linux is involved on the client side):
A friend of mine needs to write some code that interacts with
a PDP11 runninf RSX via telnet. At some point someone seems to have 
adapted the application in such a way that it will react to keyboard
input from a (remote) PC keyboard as if it where a VT100 keyboard
(so PGUp et al. will do "the right thing"). This only happens when
accessed via telnet so it most likely is a "feature" of the telnet
application. Unfortunately no one has any clue about the exact mapping
of keys. So the big question is: where are such key mappings defined 
in RSX? (is there something like termcap/terminfo). My first guess
was that the server sends the usual ^e (terminal enquire) but this
doesn't happen. 

TIA info

     Ralf Mattes

PS: are the RSX/DEC manuals online? I found some stuff at www.36bit.org
and www.bitsavers.org but not to much admin infos.




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