On Monday, December 24, 2001, at 06:53 PM, Stefan Jeglinski 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.
>
> You need to install a shell that parses the arrow keys. I 
> installed bash.
>
>>  In vi, it gets wackier.
>
> h/j/k/l IIRC. My arrow keys work in vi though, could have been due 
> to the bash install.

I had a cow installing BASh so I went with tcsh instead which 
handles arrow keystrokes. Let's be honest Apple though it was good 
enough fo OS X so I'm not arguing. It has no dependencies either 
which is good news for a moron like me that can't seem to get 
anything like that right.

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