Console Windows

[Chuck Pateros]

Thanks to everyone, especially Scott Hess, for help on my Amiga -
Sun problem.  The problem was that when I remotely logged in
to the Sun from an Amiga console window, I couldn't use my
arrow keys in vi.

I did the following change to /etc/termcap on the Sun:

Old /etc/termcap entry:

# rough draft of Amiga termcap by Mike Meyer
#AA|amiga|Amiga ANSI:\
#	:co#80:li#25:am:do=\E[B:ce=\E[K:cd=\E[J:\
#	:cl=\E[H\E[J:ku=\E[A:kd=\E[B:kl=\E[C:kr=\E[D:kb=^H:\
#	:al=\E[L:dl=\E[M:le=^H:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=\E[C:up=\E[A:\
#	:ce=\E[K:ho=\E[H:dc=\E[P:ic=\E[@:\
#	:so=\E[2m:se=\E[m:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[m:mr=\E[7m:mb=\E[7;2m:me=\E[m:

New /etc/termcap entry:

AA|amiga|Amiga ANSI:\
	:co#80:li#50:am:do=\E[B:ce=\E[K:cd=\E[J:\
	:cl=\E[H\E[J:ku=^[A:kd=^[B:kr=^[C:kl=^[D:kb=^H:\
	:al=\E[L:dl=\E[M:le=^H:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=\E[C:up=\E[A:\
	:ce=\E[K:ho=\E[H:dc=\E[P:ic=\E[@:\
	:so=\E[2m:se=\E[m:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[m:mr=\E[7m:mb=\E[7;2m:me=\E[m:

The line number variable (li#25) has changed to 50 because of the (nice!)
size of the console window, and I changed the ku,kd,kr and kl variables
from \E[A, \E[B, \E[D and \E[C to ^[A, ^[B, ^[C and ^[D respectively.
Note that besides the change from \E to ^, I also needed to switch the
letters for kr and kl.

I don't know where we originally even got this termcap entry.  I tried
ftp'ing the /etc/termcap entry from the Amiga to the Sun, but that 
resulted in bizarre terminal behavior.  

I was going to try changing the other \E's to ^'s, but now the screen
seems to work fine ...

Thanks again for all the help, and what the hell is an xtermm, and why
don't other machines seem to like it?! :-)

Chuck
pateros at ecse.rpi.edu