Administrator's Guide

Administrator’s Guide

Eterm

Version 2.0

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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S

1 Before You Begin ...... 4 1.1 Who Should Use This Manual ...... 4 1.2 About This Guide ...... 4 1.3 Conventions and Abbreviations ...... 4 1.4 Finding More Information ...... 5 1.5 Eterm on the World Wide Web ...... 5 1.6 Overview ...... 5 2 Getting Started ...... 6 2.1 System Requirements ...... 7 2.2 Installation Procedure ...... 7 2.3 Remove ...... 7 2.4 Starting Eterm ...... 7 2.5 Command Line Parameters ...... 7 3 Stand Alone: Configuring ...... 8 3.1 Overview ...... 9 3.2 Line Format ...... 9 3.3 File Format ...... 9 3.4 Example File ...... 10 3.5 Parameters ...... 11 3.6 Printing ...... 13 4 eLux Plug-In: Configuring ...... 14

5 Key Mapping ...... 16 5.1 Introduction ...... 17 5.2 Format ...... 17 5.3 Example File ...... 20 5.4 Troubleshooting ...... 20 6 Terminal Emulation Control Functions ...... 21 6.1 Format ...... 22 6.2 Control Functions Recognized by the ANSI Terminal Emulation ...... 23 6.3 Control Functions Recognized by the VT320 and BA80 Terminal Emulation ...... 25 6.4 Control Functions Recognized by the Siemens 97801 Terminal Emulation ...... 28 7 I N D E X ...... 31

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1 Before You Begin

1.1 Who Should Use This Manual This manual is for system administrators responsible for installing, configuring and using eterm on a Linux system. This manual assumes knowledge of: • As a stand-alone program: The operating system Linux (SuSE 7.0 or higher or Red Hat 7.0) • As an eLux plug-in: The Embedded Linux (eLux®) software and/or how to operate the Scout eL management tool

1.2 About This Guide This documentation presents step-by-step directions on how to install, configure and use eterm as either a stand-alone program or as a plug-in on a Thin Client running eLux software. Information in this manual is valid for both stand-alone and plug-in programs. When eterm as a stand-alone program differs from eterm as an eLux plug-in, this is noted. For convenience, the manual is divided into the following sections:

Chapter Description 1 Before You Begin Manual conventions, overview of eterm functions and features 2 Getting Started System requirements, detailed instructions on installing and starting eterm, and command line parameters 3 Stand Alone: Configuring How to configure eterm as a stand-alone program 4 eLux Plug-In: Configuring How to configure eterm as an eLux plug-in 5 Key Mapping A detailed description of eterm.map, the key mapping file 6 Terminal Emulation Control Control function sequences for the different emulations. Functions

1.3 Conventions and Abbreviations

Conventions The following are text formats and symbols that appear in the manual:

Convention Description “ ... “ Quotation marks refer to screen