Subject: BitCom and Pine (fwd)

From: Peter Lardner <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 10:38:21 -0400 (EDT)

This is a repost of a msg sent two weeks ago to which there was no response.

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Have any BitCom users experienced the "Expected Variable or Constant" 
message when attempting to move through a document line by line using the 
down arrow?  The same phenomenon occurs when using Joe as the editor.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

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From: Don Sugarman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 14:13:22 -0400 (EDT)

I don't have the BitCom documentation, but I do know that if you logged 
in as a VT100, Pine and others are expecting <esc>OA for up, <esc>OB for 
down, <esc>OC right, and <esc>OD left.  If that isn't what BitCom is 
sending, then your results could be bizare.

To see what BitCom is sending, open a test file with vi (vi test.txt), 
then enter insert mode (i), type <ctrl>v followed by the up arrow.  This 
will cause the literal value of the up arrow to be displayed.  <esc>OA 
would be displayed as ^[OA.

It this isn't what you get, check your BitCom manual to see if you can 
reprogram your arrow keys.

Good luck.

Don Sugarman
[email-masked]

P.S., you might also want to consider a more robust communications 
package. ;-)