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From: gfink@iris.ucdavis.edu (George Fink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Apollo Termcap
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Date: 3 Oct 90 21:49:53 GMT
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Reply-To: gfink@iris.ucdavis.edu (George Fink)
Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Currently, in our apollo lab here, (DN3000 running 10.1), when we need
to edit on an external (non-apollo) machine via rlogin, telnet, etc.,
we are required to run the vt100 emulator to get the full power of
curses, etc.  Unfortunately, this emulator is buggy and also clobbers
many of the nice apollo dm cursor keys and movements, etc.

So seeking to avoid the vt100 emulator, I want to find an accurate
termcap for a pad, such as is created by the command `cp /bin/csh`.
The standard termcap, found in many /etc/termcap files, and labeled as
`apollo`, is incomplete and insufficient.

How do people get around this problem?  I want to run emacs on an
external machine!  Without the emulator crashing every time I exit, or
without phantom characters printing to the screen.

The apollo termcap we are using (and this seems to be on all our local
machines) is:

TERMCAP=z8|apollo:al=\EI:am:bs:cd=\EJ:ce=\EK:ch=\EN%d:cl=^L:cm=\EM%+\040%d):cv=\EO+\040:dc=\EP:dl=\EL:do=\EB:ei=\ER:im=\EQ:mi:nd=\EC:se=\ET:sf=\EE:so=\ES:sr=\ED:te=\EX:ti=\EW:ue=\EV:ul:up=\EA:us=\EU:co#88:li#53:

This does do some things correctly (clear the screen), but actions like
placing the cursor in an arbitrary position do not work.

Thanks for any help anybody can provide, mail me for more details on
any of the above issues.

--George
George Fink			|  gfink@{clover,iris}.ucdavis.edu
University of California, Davis	|  ucbvax!ucdavis!{clover,iris}!gfink