Re: Using INS & DEL keys with Informix 4GL

Willy Congson wrote: > > We are using Informix 4GL Ver. 4.14 running on HP-UX Ver. 9. > Our client terminals are PCs running wyse60 terminal emulation. > We would like to be able to use the Insert key instead of Control-a > and the Delete key instead of Control-x when editing fields. > Any suggestions? > Tia, > Willy Congson > wcongson@direct.ca The easiest way is to change the keyboard mapping of the emulator, as Nigel says. I use this with ICE.TCP. I also map Shift+Insert and Shift+Delete to the INPUT ARRAY insert and delete row functions. This seems to make sense to users. There are various non-standard ways of fooling around with Unix terminal I/O translations. SCO has mapchan. This can get messy. -- Peter Lancashire Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 Mail: Peter.Lancashire.PL1@bayer.co.uk --- My Internet plumbing does not allow me to mail and post news together. Sorry. All opinions are my own and not those of Bayer plc. --- Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.org.uk/