mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) (11/08/87)
So, all you dissatisfied HDS users out there, what other terminal have a true meta key (besides HDS and Ann Arbor Ambassadors)? I'm not talking about an ESC key -- I mean a key that when you press simultaneously with an alphabetic key, turns on the high bit of an 8-bit byte. In some cases, (e.g., for tcsh) it's even better if the meta key can fake being a "modifier" key but actually causes the terminal to transmit ESC followed by the letter. (The HDS meta key can do either). A couple of the people who commented on HDS said that they replaced them with GraphOn terminals or were thinking about it. Do the GraphOns have a meta key? -- internet: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.arpa usenet: {uunet|sun|ucbvax|decwrl|uw-beaver}!mkhaw%teknowledge-vaxc.arpa USnail: Teknowledge Inc, 1850 Embarcadero Rd, POB 10119, Palo Alto, CA 94303
wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) (11/09/87)
In article <18700@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) writes: >So, all you dissatisfied HDS users out there, what other terminal have a >true meta key (besides HDS and Ann Arbor Ambassadors)? This might be a bit expensive as terminals go, but Sun 3's have a true meta-key. I was pleasantly suprised to see that the 'alt' key (I think thats what it was labelled) turned on the meta (aka parity) bit of a char. They also map Control-spacebar to send ^@ like any civilized terminal. (Unlike this cretinous Wyse-99 which tries to get you to break your fingers by typing control-shift-2.) -- Wolfgang Rupprecht UUCP: mit-eddie!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang (or) mirror!mit-mgm!wolfgang ARPA: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (IP addr 18.82.0.114)