lehtonen@cs.Helsinki.FI (Tapio Lehtonen) (12/30/89)
How are terminals to be described to AIX PS/2 1.1.1 so that also non-ASCII keys on the terminal do something useful? I got a vt220 terminal to work both with a modem and with a null modem cable, but only ASCII codes produce expected results. I get a backspace with control-H, but the backspace key and cursor arrows etc. seem to send what they are supposed to send (they echo normally) without the AIX interpreting then correctly. After RTFMing I found out that terminfo should have definitions for umpteen terminals, including vtXXX, so I conclude I am doing something wrong. I was rather supposing that setting the environment variable TERM to vt100 or vt100-am shoud do the trick. No such luck, however. So, please explain to a neophyte in AIX system administration how to pound through my AIX's thick skull that I have a vt100 terminal with a backspace key. -- Tapio Lehtonen PHONE + 358 0 7084206 Dept. Comp. Sci., Univ. of Helsinki TELEX 122785 TSK SF FAX 708 4441 Teollisuuskatu 23, SF-00510 Helsinki INTERNET lehtonen@cs.Helsinki.FI Finland LEHTONEN@FINUH HYLK::TLEHTONEN
topher@topher.austin.ibm.com (01/10/90)
>How are terminals to be described to AIX PS/2 1.1.1 so that also >non-ASCII keys on the terminal do something useful? > >I got a vt220 terminal to work both with a modem and with a null modem >cable, but only ASCII codes produce expected results. I get a >backspace with control-H, but the backspace key and cursor arrows etc. >seem to send what they are supposed to send (they echo normally) >without >the AIX interpreting then correctly. I think you need too look at the manual for the vt220 itself. Most terminals have many setup modes, and probably there is a way to change what characters are sent when these keys are depressed. Topher Eliot