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From: lehtonen@cs.Helsinki.FI (Tapio Lehtonen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Adding vtXXX terminals
Summary: Backspace key not functioning
Keywords: vt100, non-ASCII keys
Message-ID: <3495@hydra.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 30 Dec 89 01:31:34 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Finland
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How are terminals to be described to AIX PS/2 1.1.1 so that also
non-ASCII keys on the terminal do something useful? 

I got a vt220 terminal to work both with a modem and with a null modem
cable, but only ASCII codes produce expected results. I get a
backspace with control-H, but the backspace key and cursor arrows etc.
seem to send what they are supposed to send (they echo normally) without
the AIX interpreting then correctly. After RTFMing I found out that
terminfo should have definitions for umpteen terminals, including vtXXX,
so I conclude I am doing something wrong.

I was rather supposing that setting the environment variable TERM to
vt100 or vt100-am shoud do the trick. No such luck, however. So, please
explain to a neophyte in AIX system administration how to pound through
my AIX's thick skull that I have a vt100 terminal with a backspace key.
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