bjones@ssc-vax.UUCP (Robert F. Jones) (06/30/90)
In article <4900@castle.ed.ac.uk>, bjp@castle.ed.ac.uk (B Pendleton) writes: > Does anyone have a Falco 5220E terminal with the so-called "vt220" keyboard? I'm using a Falco 5220e terminal right now to respond. According to my terminal manual, there is only one keyboard for this terminal, the F5220. > This terminal reputedly does vt220/vt131/vt100/vt52 and Tektronix 4010/4014 > emulations. We are considering buying 2 of them pretty soon. Hmmm... my document shows VT320/220/100/52 & TEK4010/4014 support. I have not used the Tektronix support, and I'm currently using the VT100 emulation. > The Billion $ question: > Does this terminal/keyboard have an escape key? By this, I mean a key > labelled Esc which is situated near the top-left of the keyboard and generates > the ASCII code ^[ (27 decimal). Since we use Unix (*Emacs, tcsh, etc.) more > than we use VMS, we need a real Escape key. If it doesn't have an escape key, > can one reprogram the backquote key to generate an escape? The keyboard I'm using has the <ESC> key right above the control key (<ctrl>), which is right above the shift key. The control key is next to the shift-lock key and the escape key is right next to the tab key (which is next to Q). The escape key does generate ASCII code ^[ for me. Some keys are re-programmable. I've got the unshifted delete key set to backspace (control-h). Good luck.....rfj..... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- standard disclaimer applies ========================== phone: (206) 773-2102 uucp: uw-beaver!ssc-vax!bjones or ssc-vax!bjones@beaver.cs.washington.edu snail: The Boeing Company, P.O. Box 3999, M/S 8K-04, Seattle, WA 98124-2499