Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:49:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@dreaming.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Terminal question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960409154736.2818A-100000@dreamlabs.dreaming.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960409145814.2354A-100000@dreamlabs.dreaming.org>
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On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote: > > Get out your rotten tomatoes, folks, i've got a termcap question. > > I am sitting here on my living room couch typing away on one of the four > dumb terminals i've got sitting on the coffee table. They were just > donated by a friend, and suprisingly they all work. The only stumbling > block to their efficient operation is my ignorance of their capabilities > and of termcap entries. > > I have three wyse160's, 2 with "pce" keyboards (exactly like a 101-key > IBM AT) and one with a wy60-ansi 16 function key keyboard (well, it didnt > come with it, i had it spare and i'm using it to type this). The fourth > is a visual-603 with a matching 603 keyboard. > > My questions are: > > 1) how can i get the most out of these terminals using FreeBSD? > i notice they have mouse-capabilities, but i'm not so mad as to hope > that i can get that to work. > 2) What is the best way to get the damn function and cursor keys to work > (like in pine -k)? > 3) Which termcap entry should i use, or am i going to have to build my > own to get everything out of the keyboards? > > Any information you can supply me with, or even better some pointer to > some docs or manuals so i can learn what the hell it is that i think i'm > talking about... i'd appreciate it. > > I'm sorry to come up with such a lamer question, but i've fiddled with > these things all afternoon and just can't seem to get the right > combination of termcaps and setups. > > Regards, > Mit > Since i wrote this i have had great success with setting my termcap entry to vt100, and the terminal the same... the curson keys and fuction keys up to 10 work.. now for 11 & 12... perhaps they need to be added to the termcap entry? Suggestions? -Mit %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Mitayai | ShyOne % % Project Co-ordinator | Reality Engineer % % DreamLabs | Arcturia Three % % mitayai@dreaming.org | shyone@constantchange.on.ca % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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