From: sjg@zen.void.oz.au (Simon J. Gerraty)
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>The Alt-keys used to work as meta kesy in emacs when I was running
>386bsd.  I have compared NetBSD-current (Nov 6 version) pccons.c with
>that from my 386bsd kernel and can't spot anything that looks
>related... (there were _lots_ of diffs so I can't be sure).  I've
>ensured that the "current" termcap database is installed and that the
>pc3 entry contains :km: yet Alt-x etc simply gives me an 'x'.

The solution I attempted above - installing latest termcap with :km:
in the pc3 entry seems to have been correct.  I've just fired up my
computer after moving house and alt now works as meta key!

I would have thought a "make install" would have been sufficient
followed by re-starting emacs - but a reboot has definitely done the
trick.

Thanks to all those who responded!

--sjg

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