problem with aixterm and MacX

[Pete Resnick]

paulonis at kodak.com (Mike Paulonis) writes:

>I use MacX v1.0.1 to access an IBM RS/6000 (AIX v3.1) using aixterm.  I cannot
>get aixterm to accept the delete(backspace) key for erasing characters on the
>command line.  All I get is an echo of ^[[P. Grrrrr. I would expect 'stty erase
>^?' to enable the delete key. If I use 'stty erase ^h', I can delete just fine
>with ^h, but I would rather just hit the delete key. I expect this is a problem
>with aixterm rather than MacX, but I don't know for sure.  Can anyone solve my
>*simple* problem?  Please post a followup or email to paulonis at kodak.com. 
>Thanks.  

I wasn't real fond of the fact that you can't re-map your delete key to
backspace, since AIX machines are relatively dumb on this score, but there
is a fix. I assume this works with the RS6000, though I did it on an RT.
You want to do two things:

1) Make sure you are using aixterm -v for vt102 mode.
2) Make sure that the keymap for vt102's is made. On the RT, this means
using the keycomp command on the keymap.vt file and putting the result
into the /usr/lpp/X11/defaults/vt directory. Your XDIR environment
variable must point there.

Ugh.

pr
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