termcap hell

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017, Walter Vaughan Jr via Filepro-list wrote:
>Yes most of my user's .profile have TERM =xterm ; export TERM

There are at least two sets of function key returns found in
xterm termcap.  You can see what's actually sent by your terminal
program with the 'vi' editor by opening a document, insert text,
then press ctrl-v then the function key which will show something
like this where I'm running an xterm on OS X to a CentOS Linux box.

F1 = [11~
F2 = [12~

Given that info, you can check your termcaps (FilePro uses two,
the one in /etc/termcap or your $TERMCAP environment variable,
and the one that FilePro supplies).  I usually hack the
/usr/bin/p startup script to set TERM and TERMCAP environment
variables to something sane.

Bill
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