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 Message 238 
 joseph larsen to mark lewis 
 Re: termcap ansi.sys 
 05 Nov 15 16:24:04 
 
|01 ÜÜÛ²ßßÝßßß  °ß    °|LF|01²ß  quoting |09mark lewis |01on |0911/05/15

> arrow keys aren't ANSI sys stuffs... neither are F keys... they're terminal k
> s which should be modeled into the terminal program to pick up on...

Ahh.

> yeah, wow... the telnet client doesn't do ANSI sys stuff, really... termcaps 
> e a real dance with the wolves... the termcap you use locally or via telnet i
> not the same termcap as what syncterm and others use... but then again, maybe
> hat you are having trouble seeing is the >127 characters? the box drawing and
> rame characters?? if so, that's gonna take some different majik than just a t
> mcap... that because your terminal is probably running in UTF-8 and may or ma
> not be mapping those characters to their UTF-8 equivelents...

So, there's no real "fix" then? Damn.

Thanks,

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