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From: rick@wicat.UUCP (Rick Moll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: VT220 Function Keys
Message-ID: <474@wicat.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 90 02:41:15 GMT
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drack@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Dave Rackley) writes:

>In article <2470@hq.af.mil> dan@hq.af.mil (Dan..Jezek) writes:
>>   Does anyone know the escape sequence for the F8 Function key for 
>>   a VT220.

>The following sequence will do it:
>                ESC [ 1 9 ~

Note that depending on your terminal setup, an eight-bit CSI
character may be generated in place of the "ESC [".

If eight-bit control sequences are disabled, however, aren't the
exact same codes produced by VT100's and VT220's?  I don't remember
ever writing special case code for the different terminals.

--Rick Moll
rick@wicat.com