VT420 Emulation

[tismey]

Anyone qot any suggestions for VT420 emulation in OSX? I used ZTerm on my old machine, and I'm using the OSX version at the moment. I've found that the Terminal gives me a better interface than ZTerm when I telnet into our VMS boxes, but I need teh extended keyboard of a VT420 Terminal (F-keys greater than 12 and the PF modifier keys, for example). I can produce these using macros in ZTerm, but not sure if this is possible from Terminal.

 

[kilowatt]

I could be totally off on this, but have you tried setting the term variable?

such as TERM=asci or TERM=vt100?

I find that helps when I'm telneting from solaris to OS X. Granted, it wouldn't get you those extra keys. Although, compiling ncurses and minicom might.

 

[tismey]

I've sussed how to send the equivalent of the keys I'm missing. They're all of the form

Esc[XX~

Where XX is a number.

I'd kind of like to assign the most common ones to some kind of macro or script so I don't have to constantly type them in (I do most of my Terminal stuff at silly o'clock in the morning, when I'm half asleep). Anyone know anything about this?