Re: wyse terminal help

[Doug Minett <doug bookshelf ca>]

Pavel,

Thanks for your help. I will poke around further on my own - and pass on
any solution which I discover.

regards,
doug


On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Doug Minett wrote:
>
> > Interesting. When I tried the mc > test_file, an error message appeared as
> > follows:
> >
> > subshell.c couldn't get terminal settings: Inappropriate ioctl for device
> >
> > Would using a Digi serial controller affect this?
>
> I don't think so.  What ioctls are appropriate for certain devices is
> determined by the kernel, but hardware related errors usually return
> different error codes.
>
> > The beginning of the test_file had escape sequences which looks like the
> > ti= [string of escape sequences for the wy60ak]. Attached is the
> > beginning of the string up to the "hint text". Unfortunately the screen
> > gets screwed up almost immediately, so it is pretty difficult to pick a
> > sequence which screws it up more. Does this look normal?
>
> Yes, it looks normal on the emulator.  So the emulator doesn't emulate
> your terminal exactly.  Try to interpret the sequences manually and see
> which of them are interpreted differently.  I don't think I can discuss it
> further because the problem doesn't seem to be related to GNU Midnight
> Commander.