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From: karl@robot.in-berlin.de (Karl-P. Huestegge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: How do you read the arrow keys?
Message-ID: <1991Jan2.154942.1011@robot.in-berlin.de>
Date: 2 Jan 91 15:49:42 GMT
References: <3080@dali> <1990Dec28.195518.26577@ivy.uucp> <1990Dec29.170547.3153@jwt.UUCP> <1990Dec30.020124.4083@telesys.cts.com>
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In <1990Dec30.020124.4083@telesys.cts.com> kreed@telesys.cts.com (Kevin W. Reed) writes:

>john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:
>>I've used this in curses programs I've written which accept both
>>cursor keys and the escape key as input, and it works fine.  I guess
>>it's only available in certain versions of curses?

>It is not available on SCO Xenix when using termcap curses.  It is 
>supposed to be available via terminfo curses.

>Has anyone ever come up with a way to access function keys and arrow
>keys using SCO curses termcap?

No problem here with SCO 386GT 2.3.3.
It's defined in /etc/termcap (kd,ku,kl,kr) and in /usr/include/tcap.h.

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Karl-Peter Huestegge                       karl@robot.in-berlin.de
Berlin Friedenau                           ..unido!fub!geminix!robot!karl