jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) (07/29/89)
Hi, folks. Are there any VME/10 users still about? This is one of
those little beasties, and I've been trying to get some curses-based
stuff to work here. The problems I've been running into are that I
don't seem to have the right documentation...
One problem is how to make the keyboard work right. The manuals I
have tell me the codes sent by the function keys; my programs tell
me that nothing at all is transmitted by those keys. There is a
home key that is supposed to transmit C0, but my programs say that
they get 40 ('@') when I press it. The HELP key sends a '.', not
terribly useful, I'd say. I suspect that I need to send some sort
of initialization sequence to enable all this good stuff, but the
manuals don't give me any hint as to what they might be.
Another bit of weirdness is that when my programs do a refresh(),
the screen's intensity is set to some random value, different each
time. I've determined that ESC-d has this effect, seemingly cycling
through a short list of intensities. The terminfo entry doesn't
include any \Ed sequences, so that's probably not how curses does
it. The terminfo entry describes a bunch of other sequences that
I don't seem to find documented anywhere. The vi editor doesn't
seem to have this problem, so apparently it knows something that
I don't. Any idea how I might find out the True Facts about this
stuff?
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