-=> Dominique Curtis wrote to William McBrine <=-

 DC> Well.. all I want to si change the characters sent, to high-asskey
 DC> ones.. so I son't think I'll have to mess with anything do to with
 DC> modem communication,

The solution I was speaking of is much simpler than that. In Telix, you
just hit Alt-W, select "Outgoing", and remap the characters as desired.
Simliar functions are available in many other terminal programs.

 DC> since I assume your term programs just accepts whatever keyboard
 DC> input is streamed through standard I/O..

Bad assumption. Many DOS programs don't.

 DC> I just have to alter the charcters before it goes into the keyboard
 DC> buffer I guess...

Massive overkill. What you're proposing is the hard way, not the easy way.

... William McBrine * wmcbrine{at}clark.net * http://www.clark.net/~wmcbrine/
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