Re: Looking for suggestions on WY-325ES support

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:17:36PM -0500, L. Dee Holtsclaw wrote:
> We've got several Wyse 325ES color terminals here. There is an
> NCurses-supplied terminfo but it has no color support included.

now that you mention it, the comments in the termcap description indicate
that it does color - but I don't have a way to test & resolve ambiguities
in the terse description.
 
> The real problem, however, is that there's no way to distinguish between
> the left-arrow key and backspace or the down-arrow and a line-feed. I
> presume the person(s) who designed the native emulation were either
> total morons or didn't have enough coffee that day.

or maybe they just liked to use vi.
(I used an ADM-3A back around 1980, with the same limitation)
 
> Anyway, my choices seem to be:
> (1) Reprogram the left-arrow and down-arrow keys on every terminal
> (which apparently cannot be done remotely).

can it be done via an escape sequence?

> or
> (2) Setup the terminal to use VT220 emulation and bastardize a terminfo
> defn to include color support. This requires a Programmer's Reference
> for the terminal but it's still in production and I should have one
> ordered within a day or two.
> 
> So, has anyone done anything like this or have any related suggestions?
> 
> TIA
> Dee
> 
> 
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