On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Colin Wood wrote:

> Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > 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.

No. But it seems to differ from platform to platform. :-(

> > 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.

I checked that. It knew it had an xterm, but it just thought it had a
different xterm than I had. Which is weird as I thought the xterm was
supposed to be solidly defined....

Take care,

Bill