Re: terminfo trouble

[Daniel Weaver]

At 09:00 PM 8/17/01 +0200, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to write a terminfo description for a peculiar terminal
>type, but there are some problems:
>
>1. The terminal uses byte values in the range 128 - 153 (decimal) as
>   control codes.  However, some applications, for example Emacs, seem
>   to clear the most significant bit.  The version of vi installed on
>   my machine doesn't do that.
>
>   Is there a way to indicate that the control codes should be sent
>   unchanged?  (The "km" capability doesn't seem to work for this.)

km identifies a meta key.  I wouldn't expect it to change the input
character width.  Your problem is more likely with you tty driver
settings.  Check out the STTY command and see if 8-bit is set.  (cs8)

>
>2. In fact all byte values from 128 to 255 are reserved as control
>   codes.  Sending a character > 127 can be done by sending a byte
>   with value 141 first.
>
>   Is there a way to do this?

There is no provision to expand printable characters into multi-character
sequences.  This can be done with control functions such as CR and BS.

>
>3. The row and column addresses are start from zero.  But sending a
>   null byte with %c doesn't work.  Nothing is sent.
>
>   Can %c be used for this somehow, or is there another way to do
>   this?

That should have worked.  Post you terminfo and I will check it out.

There is a program called TACK in the distribution that may help
you build your terminfo.  Chcek it out.

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Dan Weaver, ZNYX Networks
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