USING NCSA TELNET

[mcdonald at AEDC-VAX.AF.MIL]

In response to Gregg A. Cohen:
>
>Has anyone hacked the terminfo for the vt series terminal defs that
>allow one to use the NCSA Telnet and be able to move the
>cursor around in vi?
>


In version 3.2.* the cursor worked fine in vi using NCSA Telnet.  We still had
a machine running 3.2.1 and we did an infocmp vt100 on it & a infocmp vt100 on
our machine running 3.3.2.  There were two differences in the files. So what
I did was set up another terminfo file and called it vt100fix.  It contains
the contents of our old vt100 terminfo information.  vt100fix looks like:

---------------------------------- CUT ----------------------------------------
vt100fix|vt100fix-am|(w/advanced video),
        am, mir, msgr, xenl, xon,
        cols#80, it#8, lines#24, vt#3,
        acsc=``aaffggjjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~,
        bel=^G, blink=\E[5m$<2>, bold=\E[1m$<2>,
        clear=\E[H\E[J$<50>, cr=\r, csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr,
        cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=\b, cud=\E[%p1%dB, cud1=\n,
        cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C$<2>,
        cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH$<5>, cuu=\E[%p1%dA,
        cuu1=\E[A$<2>, ed=\E[J$<50>, el=\E[K$<3>,
        el1=\E[1K$<3>, enacs=\E(B\E)0, home=\E[H, ht=\t,
        hts=\EH, ind=\n, ka1=\EOq, ka3=\EOs, kb2=\EOr, kbs=\b,
        kc1=\EOp, kc3=\EOn, kcub1=\EOD, kcud1=\EOB,
        kcuf1=\EOC, kcuu1=\EOA, kent=\EOM, kf0=\EOy, kf1=\EOP,
        kf10=\EOx, kf2=\EOQ, kf3=\EOR, kf4=\EOS, kf5=\EOt,
        kf6=\EOu, kf7=\EOv, kf8=\EOl, kf9=\EOw, rc=\E8,
        rev=\E[7m$<2>, ri=\EM$<5>, rmacs=^O, rmkx=\E[?1l\E>,
        rmso=\E[m$<2>, rmul=\E[m$<2>,
        rs2=\E>\E[?3l\E[?4l\E[?5l\E[?7h\E[?8h, sc=\E7,
        sgr=\E[0%?%p1%p6%|%t;1%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p1%p3%|%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;m%?%p9%t^N

%e^O%;,
        sgr0=\E[m^O$<2>, smacs=^N, smkx=\E[?1h\E=,
        smso=\E[1;7m$<2>, smul=\E[4m$<2>, tbc=\E[3g,
---------------------------------- CUT ----------------------------------------

Then you can run tic on this file to create the terminfo databases.  Next
when you telnet to the iris set term="vt100fix" & this should do it for you.


The differences were:

     old vt100 from 3.2.1               vt100 in 3.3.2
     --------------                     -----------
     rmkx=\E[?1l\E>                     rmkx=\E[?1l
     smkx=\E[?1h\E=                     smkx=\E[?1h

          ^
          |
          |
       These are the values you need in order for it to work.

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