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

[Lori Reed]

Ignore much of my last post, I must be on crack. :)

VT-100 keyboards were (are?) less sophisticated than I remember. They 
lack such common niceties as [Page Up]/[Page Down]. Here's a pic:

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/vt100-keyboard.html

Based on that pic, this seems to be a complete set of key sequences:

http://www.nw.com/nw/WWW/products/wizcon/vt100.html


BTW, who has a still running PDP-11?

Lori


rm at fabula.de wrote:

> 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.