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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!cyantic!mark
- From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld)
- Subject: Re: Wyse 60 & curses
- Organization: CYANTIC Systems
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 13:07:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.130717.9219@cyantic.com>
- References: <1992Jul17.232342.1300@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Jul20.113320.3167@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> <1992Jul25.011344.10285@bilver.uucp>
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- In article <1992Jul25.011344.10285@bilver.uucp> bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
- >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:
- >
- >>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'
-
- One of the terminfo entries on SCO UNIX is named wyse60ak (ak for ANSI
- keys). The init string automatically puts the arrow keys on the wyse into
- ANSI (vt100) mode. No need to reprogram anything if you use this entry.
-
- On the other hand, Wyse terminals have enough quirks in their native modes
- to make them a pain in the butt. I only use them emulating one of the DEC
- personalities--but our customers don't.
- --
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