On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 04:36:10PM -0400, Sean Porterfield wrote:
> How do I send the help key? man tn5250 says help is M-h, but I can't
> figure it out. Isn't M for Meta the same as Alt? I tried Ctrl-Alt-h,
> Alt-h, Ctrl-h, Shift with each of those...
>
> I'll never understand why programs don't all use F1 for help! (The
> AS/400 programs underneath, not tn5250)
Maybe you are beyond help <g> Actually, the reason is backward compatibility,
since almost nothing used F1 for help on the System/36, as there was this
separate help key. Applications ported from S/36 land or written by old-timers
might not expect F1.
M-h is Meta-H (Alt-H on modern keyboards, although it might soon mean Apple-H
for me ;-), which on some kinds of terminals sends Esc-H - that is where the
confusion lies (I'm assuming - I didn't write the man pages).
Use Esc-H.
-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
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