OT : tricky keyboard questions

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lisztfr

Hi,

Could someone help me with this one ? :

1) how to send backslash (\) to a VNC remote machine ?

(alt gr + 8 don't work)

2) eventually doing the above using ascii code (but from
a laptop without numpad) ?

3) trying the above with microsoft visual keyboard ?


i cannot even do ascii on my laptop -without numpad,
so i'm far away from sending ascii code throught vnc :(


thanks,

laurent
 
I just connected up with a clients system using UltraVNC, opened Notepad and
typed away sending lot's of backslashes (\). Then I opened Notepad on the
local computer, typed in the backslash, did a copy of it then pasted it into
the Notepad I opened on the remote computer. Worked fine. Now this may not
be what you want to do but since I don't know what application uses a
backslash as a command key, I can't try that. Read on......

Also, under UltraVNC there is an icon on the top toolbar labeled "ABC" which
is used to send a custom keycode using decimal and any control key sequence.
The latest version of UltraVNC is backward compatible with earlier versions
so maybe all you need to do is download the latest from www.ultravnc.com and
give it a try.

Bob S.
 
Thanks, i will try UltraVNC since if it's backward compatible
so i won't have to do a remote install !
I wanted only to type in a path inside a dos shell, if you have
many \ to type, copy/paste is not "cool" :) thought
ultravnc would be overkilled, but the solutions i considered where
also ...clumsy, like using a ftp editor and a tail command
from the server machine, tailing the text typed here, sent
via ftp...



laurent
 
I just opened a remote server, brought up a DOS window and typed in c:\ and
tried other keys - all normal keys worked even Cntrl key sequences. I think
UltraVNC will do everything you want.

Bob S.
 
Ok, 1 more little fund : on can copy/paste between VNC machines :
the clipboard is shared. An easy way to retreive text, copy command
lines, etc...

laurent
 
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