Mapping DEL to ^? (\127)

Christian Zahl czahl at opal.cs.tu-berlin.de
Tue May 28 22:20:04 AEST 1991


flint at cutmcvax.cs.curtin.edu.au (Daniel Baldoni) writes:


>The following question is being asked on behalf of an idiot lecturer:

>	How can I remap the <DELETE> key on a HFT terminal so that
>	it actually registers as a <DEL> character (decimal 127)?

>Many of our staff are used to using <DEL> as their INTR generator
>and don't like the idea of having to use ^C.

>Our machine is an RS/6000-320 running at level 3001.

>Thnanks for any information you can provide.

On a PS/2 there is a program called "defkey" which is interactive driven.
I did not know if it is also supported on the R6K!? A look in your Commands
Reference Vol. 1 will tell you.

But there are sone ioctl functions provided by the hft to remap it.

Hope it helps, Chris



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