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From: root@sgzh.uucp (Bruno Pape)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: xterm key mapping in 3.3.1
Keywords: xterm
Message-ID: <1990Oct14.094902.7246@sgzh.uucp>
Date: 14 Oct 90 09:49:02 GMT
References: <16123@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
Reply-To: root@sgzh.UUCP (Bruno Pape)
Organization: Silicon Graphics S.A., Zuerich, Switzerland
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In article <16123@yunexus.YorkU.CA> gklaass@yunexus.yorku.ca (Gary Klaassen) writes:
>We have been using xterm supplied with Irix 3.2.1 with the -ibmkbd option
>to provide a full vt100 keypad when using
>the edt-emulation mode of gnu emacs on sgi's and other unix machines
>and when using the edt editor itself on a Vax running VMS.
>
>The -ibmkbd option is no longer supported by the xterm that comes with Irix
>3.3.1. We tried the options 'enable application cursor keys/keypad'
>in the xterm VT options menu but they only enable a small number of 
>the needed keys. 
>
>Does anyone have a solution? Thanks, G. Klaassen

There is no replacement.   There is a bug report on this and the scr
number is 10899.   A workaround is to copy xterm from 3.2 to a 3.3.x
system.  But, you need to kill Xsgi and restart it with bc flag
(plus the flags it was originally started with).

As quoted from my contact in Mountain View.

Bruno Pape