Using telnet on local network

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 11 October 2012 21:43:51 Rashkae did opine:

> On 10/11/2012 08:19 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> > 
> > I have an old, old computer that has the ability to converse, more or
> > less, with the telnet program supplied by out 10-04.4 repo's.
> > 
> > However that machine has huge diffs in the kayboard mapping when
> > compared to a modern 100+ key pc keyboard.
> > 
> > Is there a place where a translation table that would make a modern pc
> > keyboard be more compatible with this old machines expectations?
> > 
> > For instance, the pc keyboard backspace key is gibberish to the old
> > machine, while a ctrl+h works as expected.  That is the sort of
> > translations I'd like to have done automatically if possible.
> > 
> > Is it?  And if so, how?
> 
> I forget how to do these kinds form things with a pure terminal, but
> these kinds of options seem to be included with the modern GUI terminal
> windows.  For example, if you run gnome-terminal, look in your Profile
> Preferences Compatibility tab.  (Advanced tab in xfce4-terminal,)
> 
> In KDE Konsole, in the Profile Input tab, you want to use "Solaris
> console".
> 
> If you want some more under the hood hijinks, see here:
> http://www.ibb.net/~anne/keyboard.html

Bookmarked, thank you very much.

Cheers, Gene
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