Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:11:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@dreaming.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Terminal question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960409145814.2354A-100000@dreamlabs.dreaming.org>
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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 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Mitayai | ShyOne % % Project Co-ordinator | Reality Engineer % % DreamLabs | Arcturia Three % % mitayai@dreaming.org | shyone@constantchange.on.ca % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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