[comp.windows.ms] Terminal vt100 emulation

yeates@motcid.UUCP (Tony J Yeates) (06/07/90)

I've just got Windows 3, and I particularly liked
the terminal program.  For my use at least, it was
VERY easy to use. 

 I have found one inconsistancy: the up arrow and
down arrow keys do not function as expected when I
use the vt100 emulation.  I've tried other emulations
from DOS (Procomm VT102 & QVT vt100) where the arrow
keys are mapped as would be expected.

From reading the documentation, I would guess that
this is a bug, or that maybe I may have set something up
incorrectly ( I used the window defaults for most
options).

Has anybody else experienced this problem? Any 
solutions?

DLB@psuvm.psu.edu (Dan Bernitt) (06/11/90)

I've used the terminal program with VT100 emulation and had no problem with the
cursor keys.  If you were using the cursor keys on the numeric pad did you
have the scroll lock on?  Don't know about the cursor but the function
keys require scroll lock.

While on the subject of the terminal emulation, it took me some time to figure
how to set up a function key so that it would send an escape key.  Finally got
that to work also.  The sequence to represent an escape character is ":[".
That's a karet (upper case 6 on an extended keyboard) followed by a left square
bracket in case our, or another system, does an unexpected translation.