Michael,

possibly it depends on your term emulation? In case you use Proterm 3.1 -
since 'compact apple keyboard' I understand as Apple II - try OPT+arrow.
May be that will work.

HTH, Ulrich

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)
> 
> Michael Joy
> mjoy@kdi.com
> 
>