fp Termcap issue

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, May 28, 2009, Douglas Luurs wrote:
>
>   Weâre migrating FilePro from SCO Openserver 6.0 to RedHat Enterprise
>   Linux 5.3.  Weâre trying to get all of our key bindings to match the
>   old installation by changing /appl/fp/termcap.  Weâre having good
>   success except when changing the BRKY key.  On the old server BRKY was
>   assigned to Delete whereas on the new server itâs assigned to Ctrl-C.
>   Within the FilePro developers reference (page 658) I can see that the
>   termcap code for BRKY is PY.  Trouble is, no matter what I set PY to,
>   the setting isnât honored.  Iâm able to get our other bindings
>   changed, just not this one.

My advice is to suck it up and use ctrl-C as pretty much every OS
in the world except for SCO's do.  The DEL key on many (most)
non-console keyboards does not send the DEL (ctrl-?) character
sent by SCO consoles while ctrl-C works anywhere.

Bill
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