termcap

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018, Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list wrote:
>Your attachment did not come through. I don't think they're allowed.

When attachments are scrubbed, the message will have a note to that effect
with a URL where you can get it from the Mailman server.

I usually hack the 'p' startup script to do things like set the
TERM environment variable and do any 'stty' commands necessary.

Generally I prefer using Ctrl-C as the break as it's common to
any system other than ancient SCO Xenix and Unix.  The DEL key
doesn't always send the same thing, for instance it sends [3~
on the Linux system I'm using under and xterm (that's ESC [ 3~).

Another issue is that not all VTxxx terminals send the same codes
for function keys nor do all xterms recognize the same codes so
picking the correct termcap can be a bit tricky.  Here's a case
where 'vi' is your friend.  Using the Ctrl-V prefix, you can
display the codes sent by function keys on your system.  On the
one I'm using it shows the following (the first character is ESC).

	F1	[11~
	F2	[12~
	F3	[13~

I could go on a rant aboud Microsoft using the ESC as a
standalone character instead if the start of a multicharacter
command sequence as $DEITY intended :-).  That's why FilePro uses
ESC-ESC instead of a single ESC character.

Bill
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