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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Can ANSI/DEC terminals report keypad mode?
Message-ID: <10687@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 8 Aug 89 21:49:27 GMT
References: <69006@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <69006@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> leichter@CS.YALE.EDU (Jerry Leichter) writes:
>In article <1217@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk
>  (Leila Burrell-Davis) writes...
>>On leaving a program, I'd like to put the keyboard back into the same
>>state it was in at the start, in particular the numeric keypad ...
>There is no ANSI-specified code for determining this state.  ...

The right answer, as usual, is another question:  How did you alter the
state in the first place?  There should be inverse operators for whatever
you did.  Termcap and terminfo have official enter/leave various-mode
capability definitions, for example.