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Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator

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On 2019-06-13, Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
> On 6/13/19 10:07 AM, Aragorn wrote:
>> Well — cynical hat on — say that you are in a country that uses 
>> a particular keyboard layout A, and you want to remotely log in to 
>> a compromised machine in a country that natively uses a different 
>> keyboard layout B, but you don't know how to invoke a different 
>> keyboard layout in UNIX, or you are afraid that if you do so, you will 
>> be caught by the legitimate owner of the account you are illegitimately 
>> logging into...
>
> Um....  I thought that all remote connections, especially textual 
> connections, didn't actually care where the keys were.  If you type an 
> "A" on your keyboard, wherever it is, an "A" should come out on the 
> other end.

No. The keyboard simply sends a key position to the computer. The
computer than interprets that as a character. That key table is
alterable. There are a bunch of standards as to what key numbers are
sent which is why you are asked when you install any distro what
keyboard you are using (eg US International, or Mongolian or whatever).
>
> None of the systems that I administer at work care that I use a QWERTY 
> keyboard layout and that my co-administrator uses a Dvorak keyboard 
> layout.  The systems that we administer just see the commands that we 
> type, "ifconfig", "route", "ls", "cd", etc.

Yes, after the system has assigned the key numbers to the letters. 

>
> I would /expect/ that other keyboard layouts work the same way.
>
>> Hey, this is Usenet, and I've seen people ask about the weirdest 
>> things here, some of which were undoubtedly unethical.
>
> Yep.
>
>> Or homework assignments.
>
> I'm okay with people asking for /help/ understanding their homework.  I 
> am opposed to people asking others to do the poster's homework.
>
>> I've even seen a guy asking help on downloading porn, thereby including 
>> explicit links in his posts to the pornographic images he wanted.  Some 
>> people are apparently not familiar with the concept of embarrassment.
>
> Was he really asking?  Or was it a ruse to distribute links to porn?  ;-)
>
>> The OP is not visible in my news feed, suggesting that they are posting 
>> through Google Groups, which I am filtering out.  The fact that they 
>> identify with a GMail address — as gleaned from your replies to them 
>> — rather than with a proper name also suggests that this would be 
>> the case.
>
> Yep, the OP is from Google Groups.
>
> Path: …!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
>
> I've read comments that posting based on the From: address is not 
> reliable.  Primarily because someone can post using a Gmail address to 
> any server.  But only Google Groups will have googlegroups.com as the 
> posting host in the Path: header.
>
>> Fact is that we never know whom or what we're dealing with on Usenet, 
>> and least of all when they are Google Groups users.
>
> True.
>
>> And this one simply smells fishy to me. :|
>
> I don't see anything unusual about this thread.

He has after number tries, refused to say what he is trying to do, and
why in the world he would want to emulate  a 40 year old
keyboard/terminal/..., and then he wants one of us to do all of the work
for him. I also find it somewhat fishy.
>
>
>

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Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator epascual632@gmail.com - 2019-06-12 16:00 -0700
  Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-12 17:59 -0600
    Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-06-13 00:09 +0000
      Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator epascual632@gmail.com - 2019-06-12 17:16 -0700
        Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-06-13 00:26 +0000
        Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-12 20:28 -0600
          Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator epascual632@gmail.com - 2019-06-12 19:42 -0700
            Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-12 21:32 -0600
              Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator epascual632@gmail.com - 2019-06-13 01:56 -0700
                Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-13 09:22 -0600
              Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2019-06-13 12:16 +0200
                Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-13 09:28 -0600
                Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2019-06-13 18:07 +0200
                Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-13 11:38 -0600
                Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-06-13 18:57 +0000
                Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Scott Hemphill <hemphill@hemphills.net> - 2019-06-14 11:27 -0400
                Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2019-06-14 13:01 -0600
  Re: Wyse WY60 GUI Terminal Emulator Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-06-16 07:57 -0400

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