tn3270, vt100 keyboards, IRIX 3.3...

[Allan Fleming]

In article <9103071116.aa04968 at VMB.BRL.MIL> Claude.P.Cantin at nrc.CA writes:
>
>A few weeks ago, I sent a message asking if people noticed some behaviour
>changes with tn3270 when they went from IRIX 3.2 to IRIX 3.3.
>Only one person replied... asking about my findings.
>
>To summarize my question, "vt100" terminal types lost the functionality
>of  the right keypad ENTIRELY when going from IRIX 3.2 to IRIX 3.3.  Other
>differences include the loss of the keypad's "enter" key as PA2 (on both
>vt100 and iris-ansi keyboards).
>
>Under IRIX 3.2, F2 and F3 did not work.
>
>   bindkey -r f2
>   bindkey -r f3
>
>fixed those problems.  I have decided to use "bindkey" on all keys to make
>sure all function and most keypad keys are reset to their original value
>BEFORE tn3270 is invoked.
>
>IRIX 3.3 filters out an "ESC=", which causes an "alternate keypad" to be used.
>That "alternate keypad" is what I needed!  "ESC>" resets the keypad values.
>
I had similar problems when we switched - for some reason SGI changed the
terminfo's for the vt*'s. Since SGI ignored my inquiries, I just reloaded 
the terminfo's for all of the vt*'s from 3.2 (easier than extracting the 
source, changing it back, and recompiling all of them) and all of my
problems went away. Has nothing to do with filtering out "ESC=", you could also
reconfigure the terminal to match - but if you talk to IRIX 3.3 and 
something else, you'd have to reconfigure the terminal each time you switch. 
Why they switched from the default vt configuration is beyond me.

Regards, Allan