Ethereal-users: Re: Re: [Ethereal-users] Joining and a Question

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 23:04:23 -0800
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 06:54:57PM +0000, kjm@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi and thank you for responding.......
> 
> I actually resolved the F7 issue.
> 
> F5 has now become my problem. Ethereal is telling me that on my ibm3151
> system when F5 was hit it sent this information....

OK, so it sounds as if your F7 issue had nothing to do with Ethereal,
except to the extent that Ethereal was what you used to determine what
was sent over the network when you hit F7 on an IBM 3151 or IBM 3151
emulator (although the 3151 *itself* is, I think, an asynchronous
terminal, so presumably it was connected to something that was connected
to the network).  I.e., you weren't typing F7 to Ethereal and expecting
Ethereal to do something.

Next time, if you're asking a question that doesn't have anything to do
with Ethereal on an Ethereal list, you should at least make it clear
what you're really asking, so we don't incorrectly conclude that you're
typing the F7 to Ethereal and want to make Ethereal do something with
the F7.

> 00000000  1b 65 0d                                         .e.
> 
> (no wrap though)

"Wrap"?  What sort of wrap?

> I am trying to take that information and interpret in a custom app I
> am building that uses vt320_7 emulation to tell it to mimic the F5 that
> is being sent. 
> 
> So far I have not had any luck. The best I could interpreted it was
> 
> Chr(27) & Chr(101) & Chr(13) but all that did was send the letter "e"
> and the enter key.
> 
> Might you have ideas on how I might go about this?

I wouldn't - "Chr(27)" sounds as if it's BASIC (Visual Basic?), and I
don't know enough about BASIC (much less Visual Basic) to say why the 27
(which *is* an ESC character) isn't getting sent.

If you're trying to write BASIC programs to send particular sequences
over, for example, a Telnet connection, you'd probably be best advised
to ask in some mailing list, newsgroup, Web bulletin board, etc. that
deals with BASIC, or ask the supplier of your BASIC interpreter/compiler
(e.g., Microsoft, if it's Visual Basic).