From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 9 12:49:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA07320 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 12:49:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dreamlabs.dreaming.org (skypirates.constantchange.on.ca [198.96.119.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA07309 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 12:49:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mitayai@localhost) by dreamlabs.dreaming.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id PAA02825; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:49:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:49:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Terminal question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%