vi and rlogin

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Fri Jun 7 11:26:03 AEST 1991


rharmon at srg (Robert B. Harmon x4964) writes:

>I believe rlogin eats ESCs so arrow keys (instead of klhj) will not
>work.

Rlogin does not eat ESCs.  The problem with using multi-byte keys over
a network is that there may be enough of a delay between the characters
in the sequence that a program sees them as separate sequences.

>The telnet command implements a virtual terminal protocol and 
>arrow keys will work.

There should be NO difference (with respect to multi-byte keys)
between rlogin and telnet.

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