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From: tucker@unocss.UUCP (Gregory A. Tucker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: ATP Macros
Keywords: ATP macros
Message-ID: <368@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 88 23:26:00 GMT
Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha
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Since I downloaded my copy of ATP from comp.binaries.apple2 I have 
been fairly impressed with it.  It has excellent VT100 emulation,
good macros, superior design, and extensive documentation.  (BTW, I
have already written a letter to the author praising him for it.)

However, ATP has this annoying little problem of requiring the 
solid-apple key to be depressed for the arrows to work properly in
emulation mode.  I have tried to compensate for this problem by
defining macros for the arrow keys.  (ie. ^[[A, ^[[B, etc.)
This scheme /seems/ to work without any problems on my VMS account,
but it gives me problems in Unix.  For example, when I run 
Visual News and depress the arrow key, it gives me two erros
that say undefined key.  Why should this be?  Of course, this problem
is easily corrected by depressing the closed-apple key, but that is
very annoying and requires who hands to do it.  Are there any 
problems that might arise from defining the ansi sequences as macros,
or is there anyting special that unix requires to work with vt100
emulators?

"Something I learned today.
 Black and white is always grey!
 Stopping at a four way sign.
 It's someone else's law, not mine..." -Husker Du
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