I think you're right about the ^ character, but it came when I pressed 
the ctrl-v, so i didn't know it was part of the code generated by the 
arrow keys themselves.  Can't really verify what I'm saying..I'm at work 
now, but that's what I remember.

				Kevin

On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, SUNAGAWA Keiki wrote:

> Kevin Havener <havenerk@Walden.MO.NET>  wrote:
> 
> Kevin> OK, finally got time to do this.
> 
> Kevin> 	[OA = up
> Kevin> 	[OB = down
> Kevin> 	[OC = right
> Kevin> 	[OD = left
> 
> I think you got `^[OA' (see `^') or so, did you?  It means
> that if you press up arrow key, it generates a character
> sequence of `^[-O-A' (ESC-O-A).
> 
> >> In my case, I typed left arrow key and got `^[OD'.  My
> >> termcap file contains `kl' entry and is `kl=\EOD'.  They
> >> should be consistent with each other.
>  
> Kevin> Seems that our arrow keys generate the same code.
> Kevin> But you're over my head with the termcap explanation :-).
> 
> ok, but it's not so difficalt.  In termcap, `\E' means `^['
> (ESC) character.
> 
> --
> SUNAGAWA Keiki <Keiki_Sunagawa@yokogawa.co.jp>
> Happy Hacking!
>