On Monday, December 24, 2001, at 12:42  am, David Robertson wrote:

> I have a mac quadra 700. which seems to be a black sheep. But I was 
> able to
> get netbsd 1.4.1 installed fine, and 1.5.2 also. But each time i hit the
> arrow keys the cursor does not move, i get ^[[A , ^[[B, ^[[C, and ^[[D
> output at the prompt. In vi, it gets wackier.
>
> I am surprised this isnt documented in my relatively exhaustive 
> searches.
> Because i had the same problem on a LC III w/debian. Anybody have any 
> ideas
> to resolve this ?

Try stty, which fixes stuff like that. You can get the delete key, for 
example to work by `stty erase '^?'`, I think.

For vi, remember that 'j k h l' work as arrow keys.

Happy Christmas,

~ Matthew