Subject: Re: Wyse60 Support

From: Knute Snortum <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 09:49:06 -0800 (PST)

On 24 Jan 1995, Robert Mann Packaging Co. wrote:

> Ok ... I finally got pine, and I've been playing around with it, and I 
> suddenly realize that the cursor keys on our Wyse60 terminals are not 
> working inside Pine ... 
> 
> It looks like the cursor keys send ^K, ^J, ^H, and ^L, which Pine uses
> for other purposes.  Is there a way to remap these keys inside Pine, or 
> do I initialize the terminal to a different type going in??? 
> 
> Anybody ever run into this?

Oh yes.  Our solution (which we haven't implemented yet) is to make the 
Wyse60's ansi.  On our system you would set the TERM variable to 
wyse60ak and do a tset.  It doesn't fix everything (PgUp and PgDn don't 
work for instance) but it's a start.

Be careful!  If your other packages are expecting non-ansi keyboards 
you'll need to undo what you did above.  Also, if you flip from session 
to session, you may wind up with the wrong keyboard in the wrong program.

Some day we will make all our programs talk ansi, but for now I just use 
the control keys.  Other people have mini-scripts that take them into and 
out of ansi as they go in and out of pine, but watch out for task switching!

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From: Chip Old <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 02:33:31 -0500 (EST)

> do I initialize the terminal to a different type going in??? 
 
Could've sworn I read this and replied several days ago.  Do we have a 
dup loop going?
 
We had the same problem here.  Based on what youre getting from your
cursor keys, it sounds like your Wyse terminals are set for Wyse 50+
terminal emulation.  Pine will work better for you if you reset them to
vt100 emulation.  It's easy enough to do, but youi need to switch back
after your Pine session if you need Wyse emulation for other functions.
 
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