termcap question

[Ilya Palagin]

Quoting William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>:

> 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   the pointer for more help in it is no longer valid.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
>

There is a good document which helped me to solve problems with terminal:

http://howtos.linux.com/howtos/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.shtml
http://howtos.linux.com/howtos/Text-Terminal-HOWTO-16.shtml



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