Subject: Pine on Wyse 50

From: [email-masked] (Jurist)
Date: 30 Aug 1994 23:35:05 GMT

Is anyone running pine with Wyse 50's as terminals?  The arrow keys send 
inconvenient control characters.  I know you can use N, P, Space, and -, 
or ESC arrow key, but that is very annoying, especially in pico.

We use SCO ODT 3.0, but that shouldn't matter.
           
                           Help....

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From: Dion Vansevenant <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 22:42:04 -0400 (EDT)

> We use SCO ODT 3.0, but that shouldn't matter.

<*sigh*> Yes, we use pine on WY-50's as well. Currently only one user 
uses it, but there will be more. We're running DG/UX 5.4.201 and have not 
been able to get the Wyse terminals to function properly since it was 
installed. I've just told my users to forget about using cursor keys. 
I've spoken with both Wyse and DG and neither one was able to offer any help.

No help here, sorry. But if somebody manages to enlighten you, please be 
kind enough to pass the info my way. Thanks. Good luck!

Dion

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From: [email-masked] (David Vrona)
Date: 31 Aug 1994 20:53:29 -0500

Jurist ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Is anyone running pine with Wyse 50's as terminals?  The arrow keys send 
: inconvenient control characters.  I know you can use N, P, Space, and -, 
: or ESC arrow key, but that is very annoying, especially in pico.

Can the Wyse 50 do VT100 emulation?  If so, put a wrapper around pine so that
the appropriate control characters are sent to the Wyse 50 to put it into
VT100 mode before executing PINE.

Then, of course, after PINE is done, send the code to pop the terminal back
into Wyse 50 mode.  Add the appropriate delay in the script to give the terminal
time to switch modes.

This works for Wyse 60 terminals.

dave

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From: Dion Vansevenant <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 23:20:23 -0400 (EDT)

> VT100 mode before executing PINE.

vt100 is not one of the emulation modes available on the WY-50. I wish it 
were. Would it be possible to remap the keys somehow, though?

Dion