carl@otto.UUCP (Carl Shapiro) (06/20/85)
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chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (06/23/85)
In article <106@otto.UUCP> carl@otto.UUCP (Carl Shapiro) writes: > >Does anyone know of a VT100 or VT220 style keyboard for the Mac? If you add the optional numeric keypad to the Mac, MacTerminal (for example) will give you the complete functionality of a VT100 keyboard. Differences are the lack of a line-feed key, the overloading of the escape key (used for escape, backquote and tilde using shift and control/shift) and a different placement for the function keys PF1 to PF4 (they are on the keypad, and require a shift character). MacTerminal even makes the function LED's available on the screen. I can use it (I've done some minor remapping, see my recent article on that) to make it a little more convenient, but it works quite well with our local version of Emacs, which really likes the keypad. I work with a VT100 compatible terminal at work, and the Mac at home, and I use the same termcap for both with no problems, and have no problem switching between the two. -- :From the misfiring synapses of: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA The offices were very nice, and the clients were only raping the land, and then, of course, there was the money...