On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Michael Joy wrote:

> ummm well it's like this. I have a compact apple keyboard II and when I hit
> up or down buttons in VI it writes A's and B's in the text file... HOW DO I
> EDIT THIS DARN THING THERE'S NOT EVEN AN ESCAPE KEY! (i'm from the pc unix
> realm hehe)

Your terminal emulation is set wrong. If you're using vt100, try vt220. If
vt220, try vt100. The vt100 had two different operating modes, and the
arrow keys changed between them. You're seeimg the classic emulation
mis-match.

ESC is ^[.

Take care,

Bill