ITEM: AA2928L

wants to change keyboard maping to carrot front

Question:

wants to change keyboard maping to carot font;refer pmr\#5x405

Response:

ENV:3.2.5 - model 570 
.DESC:Customer is using an AS400 to telnet into a 6000 and when he uses a shift-6
character, he receives a \ sign. He can also connect the AS400 to the RAN
and uses vt200 (or other emulations) and has the same results.
.
The AS/400 translation table doesn't work.

From the AS/400 I had the customer telnet to the 6000 then type
echo "shift-6" | od -ax
This displayed
0000000    "   lf
           a20a
This shows that the shift-6 is passing a hex a2 to the risc, while a
\^ is equal to a hex 5e.

Now we went back to the 6000, and created a file

/usr/lib/nls/termmap/test.in
input into it
\\xa2:\\x5e
This says convert a hex a2 on input to a hex 5e
save the file.

As root user type
\# setmaps -l test.in
Now as a any user logged in from the AS/400 type in.
$ setmaps -i test.in
 we repeated the test
echo "shift-6" | od -ax
This displayed
0000000    \^  lf
           5e0a

The carot displays, and it looks like it will work.
We add the /usr/bin/setmaps -l test.in into the /etc/rc file
We add the setmaps -i test.in into the user .profile.

Looks like it works, will test later with the application.



Support Line: wants to change keyboard maping to carrot front ITEM: AA2928L

Dated: July 1994 Category: N/A

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