Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Colin Wood wrote:
> 
> > SamMaEl wrote:
> > > On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Colin Wood wrote:
> > > 
> > > 	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.
> 
> The problem is that the vt100 and vt220 had two different sets of codes
> coming from the arrow keys (I think they agree about the two sets).
> termcap entries can only handle one set. If your terminal emulator uses
> the set different from the set your termcap specifies, you have a problem.

Do you happen to know which one we use?  I guess I'll have to look at the
ite driver to figure it out.
 
> I really think something's wrong w/ NetBSD's termcap handling. I can log
> into my i386 at home from either my mac68k or my G3 running Xoftware, and
> the keys work. If I then log onto an RS/6k and then to another NetBSD
> machine, they keys DON'T work. Weird.

Are you sure that the terminal type is getting set correctly?  I find that
if I log onto more than one machine in a chain, it often loses my terminal
characteristics.

Later.

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