Stephens Gary wrote:
>
> Fellow listers,
> One of my customers have a site running a 9x8 MPE 6.5. I want to run Remote
> console. No problem its configured and works happily with reflections etc.,
> However, one of my support staff is using an emulator but can only offer
> VT100 on a very old laptop and as such there is no 'BREAK' key on the
> keyboard.
> Question: is it possible for the Break instruction be recorded on another
> machine and sent ?
>           is the Break instruction de-codable to its ESC + xxxx value ?
> Thankfully there is an           Escape key !
> Many thanks
> Gary Stephens
> Windward Solutions Ltd (uk)

Several years ago I wrote a COBOL program to control a modem. You could
log on to the HPe3000 then run the program to open the port with the
modem on it and dial out to another HPe3000. To send the BREAK signal
out the port, I used FCONTROL to cut the baud rate in half, sent a NULL
char, then restored the baud rate. (I got the idea from our DTC friends
in Grenoble). Worked like a champ.

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