PuTTY alt-keys (was Re: 16-User Network)

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Fairlight wrote:

> YaST wants Alt-S.  Don't ask me how putty does it...no clue.  It just does,
> without me mapping a thing.  Alt-S, Alt-F, Alt-L, Alt-Q, Alt-V...name it,
> it works as if you were physically on the console, in any ncurses-based
> application.  It doesn't want a string assigned to it, it wants an actual
> Alt-modified keystroke.  Putty manages it out of the box, somehow.

A fresh install of PuTTY and some testing appear to reveal that when you 
hit the Alt-A combination, it sends an Escape followed by an A, and 
similar for other keys.

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