Subject: Strange problems with mc.

From: Dale Scheetz <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 19:29:27 -0400 (EDT)

Just recently I have begun having strange problems with midnight
commander. After some time some of the keys stop working. This usually
involves the arrow keys, but occasionaly the function keys stop working as
well. When this happens pressing the key produces characters at the
prompt, but no results. In the case of the arrow keys I can quit mc, type
reset at the prompt and return to mc with functional arrow keys. In the
case of the function keys killing the process and resetting the terminal
does not fix the problem. However, if I log out and log back in mc again
works fine. I am using the 3.2.1-1 version of mc. I have updated several
package recently (don't clearly remember which ones) and installed xpdf. 
Has anyone had similar problems? Anybody have any idea what's happening?

TIA,

Dwarf

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 13:41:02 cet

Scheetz (warf) writes:
 
 >Subject: Strange problems with mc.
 >Author:  [email-masked] at cclink
 >Date:    12.09.96 04:59
 >involves the arrow keys, but occasionaly the function keys stop working 
 >as well. When this happens pressing the key produces characters at the 
 >Has anyone had similar problems? Anybody have any idea what's happening?>
 >
 
 Well I have just an idea of what may be the problem if that happens under 
 X. If you have the problem on the console too, just forget this message. 
 
 It smells like a terminfo/termcap problem. xterm have usually such a 
 problem.  I experienced the same running mc on HP machines with broken 
 terminfo database. In the manual of mc there is some info about how to fix 
 that. 
 hope it helps,
 lazaro <[email-masked]>