Subject: Pine with Wyse 50 emulation

From: [email-masked] (Jeff)
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 17:42:50 GMT

Hello there,

I'm hoping that someone else has found a solution to using Pine with Wyse 
50/50+ emulation. If you have, please send me an email. My problem is getting 
the arrow keys mapped as arrow keys instead of sending control characters.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeff

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From: Richard Gering <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 18:17:25 +0100 (WET)

> Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Getting your arrow keys to work is relatively easy if you follow these steps:

1. Make sure you have the new Pine 3.92.

   This is the first release of Pine that will allow you to use the
   termcap/terminfo files; a necessity to get your Wyse 50 to work.

2. Edit the files pine/makefile.<platform> and pico/makefile.<platform>
   to include "-DTERMCAP_WINS" at the line defining STDCFLAGS.
   On my SCO system, this now looks like:

   STDCFLAGS=   -DSCO -DSYSTYPE=\"SCO\" -DMOUSE -DTERMCAP_WINS

3. Recompile Pine & Pico.

   Because the makefiles do not check if they were modified themselves, you
   will need to force a rebuild. The easiest way to do this is to run "build
   clean". Alternatively, you can manually remove the following files:

     pico/osdep.o
     pico/tcap.o  or pico/tinfo.o
     pine/ttyout.o

4. Execute "build <platform>"

5. Enjoy your newly built Pine!

It needs to be said that you can no longer use certain ctrl-key combinations
to activate function from pine and/or pico. For example, Ctrl-K (Cut Text)
will now do a cursor-up, since that is the code being sent by the cursor-up
key from a Wyse 50. To cut text, you should press ESC-ESC-k instead.

Just keep in mind that any control key combination can be replaced by
pressing escape twice, followed by the key you would normally press with
the control key.

Feel free to contact me if you require further assistance.

Good luck!

Best regards,

- Richard Gering.

P.S.  I've actually composed this message using a Wyse 50 emulation.
      Due to the limitations described above, it's not quite like working
      on the ANSI based terminals I normally use, but it does work.

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Richard Gering ([email-masked]) |    Computer programmers don't byte,     |
| Computer Industries International |    they just nibble a bit. (unknown)    |
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From: David Delgado <[email-masked]>
Date: 28 Mar 1996 14:23:02 -0700

> Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Totally dependent on your Wyse 50 emulation software.  Your solutions can
vary.  You need to elaborate more about your environment to offer any
viable solutions. 

-- Dave