esc characters

[rbriber at POLY1.NIST.GOV]

Tim Buxton writes about problems with losing the ESC character
from the arrow key codes when using a terminal emulator and PC connected
to his Iris.  We have had the same problem with both vi and emacs
and PC's hooked to the Iris serial ports.  It can be serious enough
to make the editors unusable.  We even have been having trouble with
emacs and a dumb vt100 type terminal connected to ttyd1.  Slowing the
baud to 4800 seemed to help the terminal but that is not a desirable
solution.  We are currently running 3.2.0 so I don't know if the
situation will improve with 3.3.  Putting our PC's on the ethernet
and using the NCSA package has made the PC's usable but the dumb
terminal still has problems.

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