Sending command keys via telnetsend

[ronin]

Hi all,

I'm new to the forums, but have often read useful threads already, I am using Macro Scheduler 11 and am still surprised by its usefullness.

I decided to write apost because I am at a standstill in a script and decided to ask for help.

I need to send strings to a terminal application, it is an AS/400 application.
The first issue is error handling,when sending those strings and pressing enter an error could occur.
I have tried with Image recognition, and with textout and in general both scripts work, the difficulty I have is with the speed, it needs to be capable to transmit 10000 strings ,with 10-22 characters each, in about 10 minutes.
So I expermimented with telnetsend and in terms of speed it looks to be fine, also the response gives me the error code in a string.But to react on those errors is where I have the difficulty.
Long story short, I need to send command keys like F3,F12 and F23 via telnetsend but see it's sent as string, also VK doesn't work. Is there a way/code to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance.

[Marcus Tettmar]

I think the answer can be found here:

http://aperiodic.net/phil/archives/Geek ... -keys.html

When you send a function key telnet actually sends a string which is an "escape code". E.g. according to the above link you would send string "^[[24~" to "press" F12.

[ronin]

wow, that was fast.I'll try that, thanks