If you need to map a non-printable character such as Escape or Tab to a key, there are a couple of ways to do this. On Windows versions of TERM or TinyTERM, do one of the following:

• In the keyboard mapper, drag the desired key into the Clipboard in the bottom left. You can then drag it from that clipboard to any other key on the keyboard.
• Click on the key you want to remap. Change the Action drop-down to MACRO. In the Value, enter the ASCII value of the key between angle brackets <>. For example, Ctrl-T is ASCII value 20, so it would be entered as <20>.
  You can also enter the control character somewhat literally, again inside the angle brackets. In that case, you’d put the caret ^ in front of the appropriate letter. For example, Ctrl-T would be entered as <^T>.

For DOS or UNIX products, you would use the SETKEY command. You can put the character in quotes directly, preceded by a ^ character:

setkey F5 “^X”

For a complete list of ASCII values, see www.robelle.com.

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