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- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Wyse 60 & curses
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.011344.10285@bilver.uucp>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 01:13:44 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.232342.1300@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Jul20.113320.3167@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
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- In article <1992Jul20.113320.3167@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> lhscmc@luxor.latrobe.edu.au (Craig Macbride) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul17.232342.1300@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> gmatrang@nyx.cs.du.edu (Geoff Matrangola) writes:
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- >Wyse60's are a pain: (Where I work uses them all the time! Groan.)
-
- You noticed that too?
-
- >We do the following:
- >- Re-program <back> and <down> arrows and <end> so they can be recognised.
- >- Make dim the default, so that bold turns normal on.
-
-
- >Conclusion:
- >Most designers of terminals are idiots who got sacked from designing things
- >that matter, so now they get to screw up terminal design instead. :-)
-
- I spent some time with the guy who designed the Link-6. Neat terminal.
- I need to try to scrounge one up and put it through it's paces. It
- even has hardware cut and paste between the two serial port connectors.
-
- But the Wyse arrow keys do show some simple-midness about the design :-)
-
- >(Wyse have the colour 325 out now: it emulates 98% of a Wyse 60, just to
- >make sure that a few things will fail miserably if you try to run them in
- >straight Wyse 60 mode!)
-
- What I have found very well, is a Wyse 160. Turn it loose at high
- speed and tell it that it is a VT220-7.
-
- On the plain 60's I've done the same as you and reprogammed the arrow
- keys to look like Vt100s'
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- Bill Vermillion - bill.vermillion@oau.org
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