Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Meik Frischke <meik.frischke@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Very "old fashioned" question
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:18:41
Message-Id: 201012231316.59601.meik.frischke@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Very "old fashioned" question by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On Wednesday 22 December 2010 19:44:53, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > currently I am playing around with the simulation of on old PDP-10
5 > (DEC).
6 >
7 > It is real fun to see and feel, how this dinosaurs of high power
8 > computing (the CPU of the PDP10, the KL10 processor has eaten
9 > 1.26 kW!!!!)
10 >
11 > The installation of the old tapes to finally get a fully functional
12 > TOPS-20 OS requires to enter such mysterious key compbinations like
13 > CTRL-/ (which at least on a german keyboard produces something totally
14 > different.
15 >
16 > Or in other words:
17 > The installation of the system is blocked by not haveing the correct
18 > keycodes.
19 >
20 > My questionis are:
21 > Are these old fashioned keycodes are part of a certain terminal emulation,
22 > so that I only have to change $TERM, or are they something to hack into
23 > .Xmodmap?
24 >
25 > Does anyone has a list with the mapping of these ancient keycode to
26 > any numerical value?
27 >
28 > Thank you very much ! Long lives the radio tube and CPUs of dicrete
29 > transistors!!! :)
30 >
31 > Have a nice XMas and a happy new Year 2011!
32 > Best regards,
33 > mcc
34 >
35
36 Hi !
37 AFAIR you are looking for DECxterm :
38
39 ftp://ftp.avanthar.com/vms/vt100.sh
40 http://decuslib.com/decus/freewarev70/decxterm/
41
42 just "./DECxterm.sh -e telnet $HOST $PORT"
43
44 Happy holidays and a Happy New Year!