RAMO%AC.DAL.CA@MITVMA.MIT.EDU ("Richard Outerbridge, Oceanography") (09/16/89)
We are running EMACS 18.52.13 on a VAX8800 with VMS vers 5.1.1 We were running Emacs 18.42 (i think) under VMS vers $.something. When we upgraded to VMS 5 EMACS stopped working, so I got a newer one put in. I am having a problem now, which I did not have under the old version. I am using IBM PC (clones) and a program called EM4010 to emulate a VT102 terminal. When I try and use the numeric keypad arrow keys on any of my PCs they usually work. But sometimes they do not. Sometimes I get characters like O's and A's and B's and C's and D's appearing instead of cursor movement occurring. At first I thought that perhaps my modem connection was causing me to lose ESC characters, but the problem also occurs when I use a hardline (at 9600 baud as opposed to 1200). I noticed that the TERMCAP.DAT files were different between the two versions (with the old version my arrow keys yield ESC[A, with the new ESCOA (and B,C, and D). Also that the enable-arrow-keys function seems not to work under the new version (which already comes with arrow keys set). The VT100 files are the same for both versions. When I replaced the new TERMCAP.DAT file with the old one the problem seemed to abate somewhat, but it still occurs. Has anyone any thoughts at all about the possible causes of this?