Subject: Re: Termcap confusion
To: SamMaEl <rimsky@teleport.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/17/1998 09:18:24
SamMaEl wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Colin Wood wrote:
> 
> > It's not in the FAQ b/c there wasn't a decent resolution to the problem
> > (IMO) when it came up last month (Jan 20th or so).  You can take a look at
> > the mailing list archives if you want the background.  I'm still not sure
> > why you are seeing this behavior.  You might try changing your terminal
> > type to vt100 and see if that helps.  Please let me know if it does.
> 
> 	The first time I tried using vt220 (I had always used vt100, but
> it was annoying when the prompt and cursor shoot halfway up the screen on
> the terminal resetting), I tried using pine I think.. and it wouldn't
> accept the arrows happily either. So, I just went back to vt100... still
> works great for me. What might be the problem with vt220? Are the arrows
> being mapped properly?

I think that vt220 uses a different set of escape sequences from vt100,
and this might be the difficulty you're running into.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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