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From: wjin@csunb.cs.uh.edu (Woochang Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZCOMM and vi
Keywords: zcomm, unix, vi
Message-ID: <1991May10.195921.20408@menudo.uh.edu>
Date: 10 May 91 19:59:21 GMT
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In article <108@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:
>In article <1991May9.214917.5513@menudo.uh.edu> wjin@cs.uh.edu (Woochang Jin) writes:
>-I remember that Telix and vi problem in unix was discussed here and it could
>-be solved by turing off DESTRUCTIVE BACK SPACE.
>-I have the same problem with ZCOMM and vi in unix.
>-How can I do this in ZCOMM ?  
>
>ZCOMM's terminal emulation does not have destructive backspace.
>When this function is needed, the backspace key is remapped to
>send a backspace character and then perform a local destructive
>backspace.
>
>When using ZCOMM with Unix, use ZCOMM's "display vt100" command
>and set the shell TERM variable to 5245, or vt102.  If 5245
>isn't supported by termcap, vt100 may be used.
>

This I already did. It just doesn't work.
Why is it that the terminal displays blinking musical keys whenever I press
ESC in vi ? 

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W. Jin