aixterm keyboard mapping

[Stephen E. Bacher]

>Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
>Subject: aixterm keyboard mapping
>From: "Thomas D. Denier" <TOM%PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU at pucc.princeton.edu>
>Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 14:15:44 EST
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>
>I am a long-time user of 3270 terminals who has recently started using an
>RS/6000 system. I am constantly pressing the Ctrl/Act key, which is located
>where the Enter key is on 3270 keyboards, instead of the RS/6000 Enter key.
>I suspect that a number of people on this list have the same problem and
>would be interested in the solution. I initially tried using the xmodmap
>command to make the Ctrl/Key look like the Enter key. This had unfortunate
>side effects. It made the two keys indistinguishable as far as the x3270
>command (an X Window command that supports 3270 emulation in the manner of
>tn3270, and supports both GDDM graphics and 3277 GA emulation). I ended up
>changing the keyboard mapping only for the aixterm command. I did this by
>adding the line:
>
>aixterm.Translations: <Key>Execute: string(0x0d)
>
>to my .Xdefaults file.

I found that if I do "telnet mvs", where "mvs" is the host name of
my IBM mainframe host, it automatically goes into tn3270 mode and
uses the keyboard mappings in /etc/3270keys.hft.  This maps the
Ctrl/Act key to "Enter" and the Enter key to "return" (i.e. new line).

On the other hand, if I do "tn3270 mvs", where "mvs" is the host name of
my IBM mainframe host, it uses the keyboard mappings in
/etc/tn3270keys.hft.  This maps the Enter key to "Enter" and doesn't
bind the Ctrl/Act key to anything.

The colors are also different - again because the key mapping files
used are different.

You can override these mappings with a .3270keys file in your
home directory.  See the man pages for more information.

This is on an RS/6000 model 320 running AIX 3.1.

 - SEB