Partial browse key: reinventing the wheel

[Bob Stockler]

Barry Wiseman wrote (on Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 05:33:18PM -0500):

| On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Bob Stockler wrote:
| 
| > Barry Wiseman wrote (on Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:24:00AM -0500):
| > | ::end:
| > | @KEYT::x(1,*)=waitkey:
| > | ::errorbox @sk:
| > | ::goto @keyt:
| > | 
| > | In response to backspace, this works fine at the console (errorbox
| > | displays "BKSP"), but in Anzio, errorbox puts up an empty window. So it's
| > | some issue in my Anzio environment.
| > | 
| > | Working in the shell, I run od and start typing.  I see that at the
| > | console, backspace is handled in a manner invisible to stdout, whereas in
| > | Anzio, backspace is echoed as ^H when typed, and the 0x08 appears in od's
| > | output.
| > | 
| > | I'll take this up with Senor Rasmussen.
| > 
| > Using Anzio Lite v15.1 on a Windows XP box, connecting to an
| > SCO OSR 6.0.0 system running filePro 5.0.14, executing your
| > processing table code example, the Backspace key returns BKSP
| > and the Left Arrow returns CLFT.  I have Anzio set to emulate
| > the SCO version of an ansi terminal.
| > 
| > In the shell the Backspace key is seen as ^H.
| > 
| > Bob
| 
| Bob,
| 
| Thanks for looking at this for me.  Sorry for posting half a story: my 
| grief is occurring in Linux.  RH 7.3, RHE 3.0, and RHE 4.0 all do it;
| I suspect the problem is my Anzio config.  I'm running AnzioWin 15.1b here
| at home (but I think the rev at my office is newer), terminal emulation
| is "linux".
| 
| Running the test on a SCO box just now, as you did, works properly for me
| too.

I think your REAL problem is running on Linux (no consistenancy).

Bob

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