Using telnet on local network

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Sat Oct 13 00:21:28 UTC 2012


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?

Breathing new life into your Coco again, Gene?? <grins> Ric



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