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From: rbj@nav.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: TERMCAP entry for vt220, anyone
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Date: 28 Nov 88 18:23:04 GMT
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? One problem is that when you are in vt220 mode, your ESCAPE key no
? longer generates the ESCAPE character (ascii 27), it generates
? "CSI 2 3 ~" instead (for use as F11).  Therefore, another key (no pun
? intended) question is: how do you generate ESC from the keyboard in 
? vt220 mode?  (When in vt100 mode, ESC is generated using the ESC/F11 key).

? I wrote a termcap that seems to work otherwise, but vt220 mode is
? useless to me if the result is that you have no ESCAPE key.

? Am I missing something?

Escape is Control-[. BTW, you probably want to run with the `communications
set-up' menu in `7-bits, space parity', and the `general set-up' in
`vt220 mode, 7 bit controls'. Wanna guess what kind of terminal I have?

?  Alan S. Denney  |  Informix Software, Inc.  |  {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland

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