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Date:      Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:47:22 -0400
From:      Doug Lee <dgl@dlee.org>
To:        Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Left/right arrow and backspace translation confusion
Message-ID:  <20050714114722.GD77560@kirk.dlee.org>
In-Reply-To: <42D64F6D.1060201@dial.pipex.com>
References:  <20050714110919.GB77560@kirk.dlee.org> <42D64F6D.1060201@dial.pipex.com>

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On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:41:33PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Doug Lee wrote:

> One thing to check is that both keyboards are actually producing the 
> same codes for your keys.  They probably are, but...

Yes they are.  The truth table (or approximation thereof) also shows
that it doesn't matter which system (/keyboard) I start from.

> Also, what does "echo $term" show?  Identical termcap files don't help 
> if your terms are different :-)

"screen" when in a Screen session, "vt102" when not.  I've also tried
"vt100" and even "cygwin" (with Cygwin being the point of origin of
course).

> Is there anything different about the .login or .cshrc between the machines?

Apart from different alias definitions, different prompts, and a
couple of other unrelated things (like shell variables set to point to
drives, for example), no.

--Alex

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