termcap question

[William Park]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 01:20:06PM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I have installed a (commercial) accounting package at a clients and
>   everything went well except one issue. The arrow keys aren't working
>   properly. Speaking to their tech-support (OSAS is the company) they
>   had me run a little program inside their app that reported keystroke
>   codes (I am guessing). The guy told me to edit my '/etc/termcap'
>   file to create a new console ('linux' and 'xterm' didn't work) that
>   "used those codes (see below) for the arrow keys.".
> 
>   Unfortunatly he was unwilling to give me any forther guidance
>   because it was outside their program. I need to make it so that when
>   the arrow keys these codes are passed:
> 
> up-arrow...: \E0A
> down-arrow.: \E0B
> left-arrow.: \E0D
> right-arrow: \E0C
> 
>   I am feeling honestly lost. I can understand the logic (change the
>   code passed to the program when key X is pressed) but beyond that I
>   don't have a clue what to do. The file itself is... cryptic... and
>   the pointer for more help in it is no longer valid.
> 
>   If anyone can give me a pointer or two I would (again) be greatul!

man keymaps xmodmap

-- 
William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>, Toronto, Canada
Slackware Linux -- because I can type.
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml