Terminal Emulators

This has to do with why Fileman Word Processing fields didn't recognize Page Up/Page Down & Home/End.

Reading the code in DDGLIB0, Page Up and Page Down will be defined ONLY IF your VISTA terminal type is VT-220 or VT-320. Don't set terminal to VT-100 or -102.

Home and End are a very interesting problem.

Putty and Windows Telnet reads Home, End as *27,"[1~",*27,"[4~" Linux console reads Home, End as *27,"[H",*27,"[F".

Every reference for VT320/220 I found on the Internet says that the Linux mapping is correct (!!) and the Putty and Windows stuff not correct.

I found this reference from a guy who writes Video Games very helpful in understanding this: [1]

So, believe it or not, VISTA VT220/VT320 is adapted to Windows and is not standard according to the VT manuals. Pretty unbelievable; but I took the time to prove it.

So, here is the final piece of advice:

1. If you are on Linux and using only Linux without Putty, you need to change the fields FIND and SELECT to be (once for VT220 and once for VT320):

     Select TERMINAL TYPE NAME: C-VT220
         Digital Equipment Corporation VT-220 terminal
     FIND: $C(27)_"[1~"// $C(27)_"[H"
     SELECT: $C(27)_"[4~"// $C(27)_"[F"

2. Just use putty everywhere. It emulates Windows Telnet closely.