Missing Meta Key on Ultrix 4.1

[Doug Rudoff]

I have a version of GNU emacs 18.55 that has been running fine on our
Ultrix 3.1 machines. We now have some machines running 4.1 and while
logged into the 4.1 machines emacs no longer realizes that the meta
key on the terminal has been pressed.  Any meta-command must be
entered with an escape.

(I almost always access the DECs through a Sun, and on the Sun's
keyboard the "diamond" key is the meta key; I do this because I have a
Sun on my desk and DEC's standard keyboard layout is the worst I've
ever seen on a workstation)

While in the normal shell the meta key works (at least while in tcsh).

I thought the problem might be fixed in a more recent version of emacs
so I compiled version 18.57.28 on an Ultrix 4.1 machine, and the
problem remains.

Any help would be appreciated.
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Doug RUDOFF    Motorola Mobile Data    Bothell, WA    uunet!mdisea!rudoff
(206) 487-5937                                             rudoff at mdi.com
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