henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (08/10/83)
Here's a termcap for the new Ampex D175 terminal. A review of said
terminal will probably be along shortly. The D175 has one annoying
oddity: no backspace key in the main QWERTY cluster. Fortunately,
it has a NEWLINE/PAGE key just above RETURN that sends a strange
single-character code. Given a suitable Unix (one that lets you set
an echo-erase-as-BS-SP-BS mode), this key can be used as the erase
key; I find I like this. Because some people and some systems may
not, there is another termcap ("ax175e") that suppresses this little
eccentricity by omitting the relevant capability.
ax|ax175|ampex d175:\
:al=\EE:am:bs:cd=\Ey:ce=\Et:cl=\E+:cm=\E=%+ %+ :co#80:\
:dc=\EW:dl=\ER:ho=\036:ic=\EQ:is=\EX\EA\EF:kb=^_:\
:kd=^J:kh=\036:kl=^H:ko=al,dl,ic,dc,ho:kr=^L:ku=^K:\
:ma=^Jj^Kk^Ll^Hh:\
:li#24:ll=\036^K:nd=^L:se=\Ek:so=\Ej:te=\EF:ti=\EN:\
:ue=\Em:up=^K:us=\El:
aX|ax175e|ampex d175 using left arrow for erase:kb@:tc=ax175:
Warts:
- I haven't done tab-setting yet.
- The initialization sequence doesn't use the terminal's
reset-everything code because it would require a delay
in the middle of the is sequence.
--
Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henryhenry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (08/10/83)
Sort of a postscript: I just realized that the two-letter names I
used for the Ampex D175 termcaps are improperly constructed. Does
anybody really care about the silly two-letter names any more? Isn't
it time to dispense with them? Surely nobody is running termcap on
V6 nowadays? (He says naively...)
--
Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry