[Simh] GOLD Keys and such

[Will Senn]

On 12/18/15 7:57 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
> GOLD and COMMAND on the other hand are specific keys on DEC terminals, 
> that both sent specific sequences of characters when pressed. As such, 
> this is a bit more complicated. You could of course just send those 
> sequence of characters yourself, but it might be non-trivial to 
> remember the exact sequence, and there might also be timeouts in some 
> software that could defeat you if you try typing them in by hand.
> Also, different DEC terminals might have sent different sequences for 
> those keys, so the exact sequence might depend on what terminal you 
> appear to have.

Johnny,

I am now using MacWise in VT100 mode and have figured out how to get 
GOLD and COMMAND to work (mapped {ESC O P to PF1 and {ESC O w to PF7 in 
MacWise). However, I'm still wrapping my head around what is happening 
as a result with respect to the keycodes. You explanation around 
timeouts is interesting and helpful. I have been reading the VT101 User 
Manual and that too, is helpful, although, there are a whole lot of 
codes and it would seem that I only need to be concerned with a few.

Let me ask you this, if I need to send a form feed or a line feed or 
another ascii character that is not given a direct representation (or 
the correct representation) by my keyboard, is there a mechanism to send 
the keycode directly? For example, linefeed is ASCII decimal 10. Is 
there an escape sequence that is equivalent to sending 10 across (maybe 
something along the lines of ESC [ 1 0 or something)?

On another note, it seems like the Mac Terminal ought to work as a 
VT100, or even VT52, since they are in the avanced section of the 
properties list, but I can't figure out how to make them behave reasonably.

Thanks,

Will