Cursor Keys in curses - how?

[doelz at urz.unibas.ch]

Problem: 
How do you input cursor keys in curses ? 

Background:
I want to show a menu on the screen which is similar to the one you get from 
SMG$ on VAX/VMS. The curses package available in C gives the problem 
that the cursor key is read either as terminator or as a sequence of three 
characters (e.g.,  <ESC> [ A ) in vt100 emulation instead of a cursor key. 

Please: 
I would be grateful if someone in netland could explain me what goes wrong on
the vt100 emulation side or even get me a piece of code which reads in a cursor 
key correctly. 

Regards 
Reinhard                                   


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