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From: aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: TERMCAP entry for vt220, anyone
Summary: is it possible to use the vt220 in native mode in UNIX?
Keywords: DEC VT220 ESCAPE
Message-ID: <601@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 3 Nov 88 03:59:54 GMT
References: <321@lafcol.UUCP>
Organization: Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA.
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In article <321@lafcol.UUCP>, pilgrimk@lafcol.UUCP (Sjambok, the foreign plague) writes:
> I need the termcap entry for vt220.
> 
> Please email
> pilgrimk@lafcol
> thanks

I almost went crazy trying to do this (well, allright, I *did* go crazy,
but not from just this :-])...  

One problem is that when you are in vt220 mode, your ESCAPE key no
longer generates the ESCAPE character (ascii 27), it generates
"CSI 2 3 ~" instead (for use as F11).  Therefore, another key (no pun
intended) question is: how do you generate ESC from the keyboard in 
vt220 mode?  (When in vt100 mode, ESC is generated using the ESC/F11 key).

I wrote a termcap that seems to work otherwise, but vt220 mode is
useless to me if the result is that you have no ESCAPE key.

Am I missing something?

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