Keypad Application/Numeric Mode

Path: emory!wupost!uunet!mdisea!rudoff From: rudoff@mdd.comm.mot.com (Doug Rudoff) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <1991Nov20.225504.26829@mdd.comm.mot.com> Date: 20 Nov 91 22:55:04 GMT Sender: news@mdd.comm.mot.com Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA I'm running Informix isql, sperform (and others) on a DECstation running Ultrix. I'm guessing that my problem applies to all Unix versions of Informix. I want to be able to use the numeric keypad on my vt420 terminal while in an Informix screen. But it seems that Informix automatically places the keypad in application mode on start up (and returns it to numeric mode when done). I don't want Informix to do this for me, I just want to use the numbers on the keypad. Is there any way to turn this "feature" off? I could modify the termcap entry, so when it tries to turn on the application mode, it really doesn't. I'd also have to change the arrow key definitions since numeric and application modes generate diferent codes for the arrow keys (poor terminal design, if you ask me). However, I'd rather not modify the termcap. Any help will be appreciated. -- Doug Rudoff Motorola, Seattle INTERNET:rudoff@mdd.comm.mot.com USENET:uunet!mdisea!rudoff "Suppose the world was only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke, instead of a bad one?" - George Bernard Shaw