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From: bvijayar@oracle.uucp (Bharat Vijayaraghavan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: CommandShell
Keywords: CommandShell keypad
Message-ID: <1990Sep21.225057.6742@oracle.com>
Date: 21 Sep 90 22:50:57 GMT
References: <37396@ut-emx.uucp>
Reply-To: bvijayar@oracle.UUCP (Bharat Vijayaraghavan)
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In article <37396@ut-emx.uucp> wiley@ut-emx.uucp (James Wiley) writes:
>The CommandShell emulates a terminal approximately decsribed by
>the mac2cs in /etc/termcap which in turn points to a vt100 entry
>according to the man pages.  The CommandShell appears not to 
>understand keypad mode.  This ia a problem when connected to other
>systems and trying to run applications such as DEC's editor or
>IBM's smit.  Is there a way to change the keyboard behavior of
>the CommandShell?
>
>Thanks
>James Wiley
>wiley@emx.cc.utexas.edu


I had the same experience with the command shell. Apparently the keypad mapping
was not implemented as part of the command shell and unless you get an upgraded
command shell from Apple, I don't think there is very much you can do about it.
More specifically, the "Esc=" sequence does not turn keypad mapping on as the
/etc/termcap file would seem to indicate. This is a Command Shell problem.

Bharat.