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From: "T.E.Dickey" <dickey@clark.net>
Subject: Re: In need of VT320 terminal emulation on Linux
Date: 21 Mar 1999 17:08:59 GMT
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
Message-ID: <7d393b$89b$1@callisto.clark.net>
To: kermit.misc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu
In comp.os.linux.networking Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
> There are several aspects to VT terminal emulation:
> 2. To map the PC keyboard to the VT terminal keyboard and then send what
> the PC keys would have sent.
This is a point that most people miss - XFree86 xterm usually is run
on a PC keyboard, so people expect it to do odd things with the delete
(and backarrow) keys. Numlock is another problem. (No one's entirely
happy with the compromises).
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Thomas E. Dickey
dickey@clark.net
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey