[rescue] Newbie question about IBM P5s (AIX)

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu May 31 19:23:17 CDT 2007


Clemson, Chris wrote:
>> On non-IBM terminals (including your HyperTerminal session), the
>> function-keys don't work, so it uses ESC-# instead.  So when you're
>> hitting ESC-0, you're sending F10, which is IBMese for "exit".  Try
>> ESC-4, which is F4 which is IBMese for "select from list".
> 
> Thanks for the reply. What would be the preferable emulation to use?
> there's about a screenfull of choices when it boots.

I don't know if HyperTerminal has it, but the right one would probably 
be the IBM 3151.

Peace...  Sridhar



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