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WY60(1)			    General Commands Manual		       WY60(1)

NAME
       wy60 - curses based emulator for	the Wyse 60tm terminal

SYNOPSIS
       wy60   [	-c | --command command ]   [ -h	| --help ]   [ -j | --job-con-
	      trol { on	| off }	] [ -l | --login ] [ -o	| --option key=value ]
	      [	-t | --term terminal ] [ -v | --version	]  [ --	]  shell argu-
	      ments

DESCRIPTION
       The wy60	utility	program	invokes	a new shell or command and adjusts the
       $TERM environment variable to have a value of wyse60.  All commands ex-
       ecuted  within  this  shell or any of its child processes automatically
       have their terminal escape sequences translated to be processed by  the
       terminal	that wy60 was invoked from.

       Unless  a  different command was	requested, the user's default shell as
       determined by the value of the $SHELL environment variable is  invoked.
       If  the	environment variable has not been set, then the	default	system
       shell /bin/sh is	used instead. This value can be	overridden in the con-
       figuration file.

OPTIONS
       Parameters are parsed until the first unknown parameter is encountered,
       or until	the special parameter -- is found. All the  following  parame-
       ters  are passed	on to the inferior shell or to the user	specified com-
       mand.  Check the	manual page for	sh(1) for a detailed list of options.

       The following parameters	are directly understood	by wy60	and  will  not
       be  forwarded  to  any  child  process  unless they appear after	the --
       marker or after another set of unknown parameters:

       -c | --command command
	    Rather than	invoking the user's shell, run the specified  command,
	    instead.

       -h | --help
	    Display a brief usage message showing the valid command line para-
	    meters.

       -j | --job-control { on | off }
	    Enable  or	disable	 job control. If the parent process is a shell
	    that supports job control then wy60	can enable this	capability for
	    its	children by forking an additional process monitoring the chil-
	    dren. By default, this option is enabled.

       -l | --login
	    Invoke the inferior	shell as  a  login  shell.  This  is  done  by
	    prepending a minus character to the	application name. This conven-
	    tion  is supported by all shells but probably gets ignored by most
	    other applications.	The --login parameter is ignored if the	--com-
	    mand parameter has also been given.

	    As a special case, it is possible to make wy60  a  user's  default
	    login  shell.  To  do  so, wy60 must be entered into the shells(5)
	    file and you must call chsh(1) to change the user's	default	shell.
	    If the emulator detects that it is invoked	as  a  wrapper	for  a
	    shell,  it	ignores	 all  command  line parameters.	It then	resets
	    $SHELL to the value	specified in  the  configuration  file	or  to
	    /bin/sh  and  launches  that shell passing all the parameters that
	    were given to wy60.

       -o | --option key=value
	    All	of the configuration variables listed later in	this  document
	    can	also be	overriden on the command line. The syntax is identical
	    to the one used in the configuration files.

	    When  using	 this  option,	it  might  be  neccessary to quote the
	    key/value pair to prevent the  shell  from	expanding  escape  se-
	    quences.

       -t | --term terminal
	    Override  the value	of the $TERM environment variable. If this pa-
	    rameter is not present, then a default of wyse60 will be used  for
	    the	value that is passed to	the inferior shell.

       -v | --version
	    Display the	version	number of the program and the date when	it was
	    compiled.

       --   All	parameters following this argument will	be literally passed to
	    the	inferior shell.

EXAMPLES
       wy60 If invoked without parameters, an interactive shell	is invoked.

       wy60 -c emacs -nw README
	    The	-c parameter can be used to directly invoke an interactive ap-
	    plication that should run in an emulated environment. The emulator
	    will terminate when	the invoked application	has quit.

       wy60 -c infocmp
	    use	infocmp(1M) to verify that the terminfo(5) database has	appro-
	    priate entries for the emulated wyse60 terminal.

CONFIGURATION FILES
       Some  of	 the execution parameters can be controlled through configura-
       tion files. Every  user	can  have  a  private  configuration  file  in
       $HOME/.wy60rc  that  overrides any system-wide settings.	The system ad-
       ministrator can also set	global parameters in /usr/local/etc/wy60.rc or
       in /etc/wy60.rc.

       All configuration files are in plain ASCII format. Comments are	intro-
       duced  by  the hash mark	# character and	extend to the end of the line.
       Blank lines are ignored.	All lines are of the form  variable  =	value.
       Variable	 names	are case insensitive. Leading and trailing white space
       for both	the variables and the values is	stripped prior to  processing.
       Non ASCII characters have to be escaped:

       \ooo  Up	 to  three  octal digits can be	used to	specify	a character in
	     the range \001 through \177.

       \xXX  Up	to two hexadecimal digits can be used to specify  a  character
	     in	the range \x01 through \xFF.

       \a    The BEL character (ASCII 7).

       \b    The BS character (ASCII 8).

       \e    The ESC character (ASCII 27).

       \f    The FF character (ASCII 12).

       \n    The NL character (ASCII 10).

       \r    The CR character (ASCII 13).

       \t    The TAB character (ASCII 9).

       \v    The VT character (ASCII 11).

       Please  note  that continuation lines are not supported and that	is not
       possible	to input a NUL character (ASCII	0).

       The configuration file supports the following parameters:

       IDENTIFIER
		 The terminal identifier string	that is	reported when  an  ENQ
		 (ASCII	5) is received,	can be overridden by setting the IDEN-
		 TIFIER	 configuration	variable.  If  this option is not set,
		 then the emulator replies with	an ACK (ASCII 6).

       PRINTCOMMAND
		 Programs can print to a local printer by sending escape codes
		 to wy60.  If this variable is set to "auto"  then  wy60  will
		 try  to  print	to either lp(1)	or to lpr(1).  Otherwise, this
		 variable should contain the name of a script that can	accept
		 data on its standard input.

       RESIZE	 If  you want to use an	external script	to resize the console,
		 then you can specify the absolute path	to this	script by set-
		 ting the RESIZE configuration variable. For example,  if  you
		 have  SVGATextMode(8) installed and you want to run wy60 from
		 the Linux text	console, then you might	 try  using  a	script
		 such as this one:
		 #!/bin/sh
		 PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin
		 egrep '.+' /proc/fb >&2 && exit 0
		 (tty <&3 | egrep '^/dev/tty[0-9]*$' >&2) 3<&1
		 if test "$?" -eq 0; then
		   SVGATextMode	"$1x$2"	  <&1 >&2 ||
		   SVGATextMode	"$1x$2x9" <&1 >&2 ||
		   SVGATextMode	"$1x$2x8" <&1 >&2
		 fi
		 exit 0
		 Make  sure  that  SVGATextMode(8)  understands	 these	modes:
		 80x24,	80x25, 80x42, 80x43, 132x24, 132x25, 132x42, 132x43.

       SHELL	 If neither a command has been passed on the command line, nor
		 the user's $SHELL environment variable	was set, then use this
		 variable to determine the default shell. If the  variable  is
		 not set, then a value of /bin/sh is used instead.

       TERM	 If  no	 terminal type has been	specified on the command line,
		 the program defaults to wyse60.  This default	value  can  by
		 overridden by setting the TERM	configuration variable.

       WRITEPROTECT
		 The  default  attribute  for indicating write-protect mode is
		 REVERSE.   This  value	 can  be  overridden  by  setting  the
		 WRITEPROTECT  configuration  variable to one of these values:
		 NORMAL, BLANK,	BLINK, REVERSE,	UNDERSCORE, DIM.  The  attrib-
		 utes  can  be combined	with each other	by listing multiple in
		 the same line.

       All the other variables specify character sequences that	should be sent
       whenever	the user presses a function key. The following table lists the
       variable	name, the default value, and  the  terminfo(5)	name  for  the
       function	key.

	      Variable Name	  Default Key Sequence	 Terminfo Name
	      A1					 ka1
	      A3					 ka3
	      B2					 kb2
	      C1					 kc1
	      C3					 kc2
	      Backspace		  \b			 kbs
	      Backtab		  \eI			 kcbt
	      Begin					 kbeg
	      Cancel					 kcan
	      Clear					 kclr
	      Clear All	Tabs				 ktbc
	      Clear Tab					 kctab
	      Close					 kclo
	      Command					 kcmd
	      Copy					 kcpy
	      Create					 kcrt
	      Delete		  \eW			 kdch1
	      Delete Line	  \eR			 kdl1
	      Down		  \n			 kcud1
	      End		  \eT			 kend
	      End Of Line	  \eY			 kel
	      End Of Screen	  \eT			 ked
	      Enter		  \e7			 kent
	      Exit					 kext
	      Exit Insert Mode				 krmir
	      Find					 kfnd
	      Help					 khlp
	      Home		  \x1E			 khome
	      Insert		  \eE			 kich1
	      Insert Line	  \eQ			 kil1
	      Left		  \b			 kcub1
	      Lower Left				 kll
	      Mark					 kmrk
	      Message					 kmsg
	      Move					 kmov
	      Next		  \eK			 knxt
	      Open					 kopn
	      Options					 kopt
	      Page Down		  \eK			 knp
	      Page Up		  \eJ			 kpp
	      Previous		  \eJ			 kprv
	      Print		  \eP			 kprt
	      Redo					 krdo
	      Reference					 kref
	      Refresh					 krfr
	      Replace		  \er			 krpl
	      Restart					 krst
	      Resume					 kres
	      Right		  \f			 kcuf1
	      Save					 ksav
	      Scroll Down				 kind
	      Scroll Up					 kri
	      Select					 kslt
	      Set Tab					 khts
	      Suspend		  \x1A			 kspd
	      Undo					 kund
	      Up		  \v			 kcuu1
	      Shift Begin				 kBEG
	      Shift Cancel				 kCAN
	      Shift Command				 kCMD
	      Shift Copy				 kCPY
	      Shift Create				 kCRT
	      Shift Delete	  \eW			 kDC
	      Shift Delete Line	  \eR			 kDL
	      Shift End		  \eT			 kEND
	      Shift End	Of Line	  \eT			 kEOL
	      Shift Exit				 kEXT
	      Shift Find				 kFND
	      Shift Help				 kHLP
	      Shift Home	  \e{			 kHOM
	      Shift Insert	  \eQ			 kIC
	      Shift Left	  \b			 kLFT
	      Shift Message				 kMSG
	      Shift Move				 kMOV
	      Shift Next	  \eK			 kNXT
	      Shift Options				 kOPT
	      Shift Previous	  \eJ			 kPRV
	      Shift Print	  \eP			 kPRT
	      Shift Redo				 kRDO
	      Shift Replace	  \er			 kRPL
	      Shift Resume				 kRES
	      Shift Right	  \f			 kRIT
	      Shift Save				 kSAV
	      Shift Suspend				 kSPD
	      Shift Undo				 kUND
	      F0					 kf0
	      F1		  \001@\r		 kf1
	      F2		  \001A\r		 kf2
	      F3		  \001B\r		 kf3
	      F4		  \001C\r		 kf4
	      F5		  \001D\r		 kf5
	      F6		  \001E\r		 kf6
	      F7		  \001F\r		 kf7
	      F8		  \001G\r		 kf8
	      F9		  \001H\r		 kf9
	      F10		  \001I\r		 kf10
	      F11		  \001J\r		 kf11
	      F12		  \001K\r		 kf12
	      F13		  \001`\r		 kf13
	      F14		  \001a\r		 kf14
	      F15		  \001b\r		 kf15
	      F16		  \001c\r		 kf16
	      F17		  \001d\r		 kf17
	      F18		  \001e\r		 kf18
	      F19		  \001f\r		 kf19
	      F20		  \001g\r		 kf20
	      F21		  \001h\r		 kf21
	      F22		  \001i\r		 kf22
	      F23		  \001j\r		 kf23
	      F24		  \001k\r		 kf24
	      F25		  \001L\r		 kf25
	      F26		  \001M\r		 kf26
	      F27		  \001N\r		 kf27
	      F28		  \001O\r		 kf28
	      F29		  \001l\r		 kf29
	      F30		  \001m\r		 kf30
	      F31		  \001n\r		 kf31
	      F32		  \001o\r		 kf32
	      F33					 kf33
	      F34					 kf34
	      F35					 kf35
	      F36					 kf36
	      F37					 kf37
	      F38					 kf38
	      F39					 kf39
	      F40					 kf40
	      F41					 kf41
	      F42					 kf42
	      F43					 kf43
	      F44					 kf44
	      F45					 kf45
	      F46					 kf46
	      F47					 kf47
	      F48					 kf48
	      F49					 kf49
	      F50					 kf50
	      F51					 kf51
	      F52					 kf52
	      F53					 kf53
	      F54					 kf54
	      F55					 kf55
	      F56					 kf56
	      F57					 kf57
	      F58					 kf58
	      F59					 kf59
	      F60					 kf60
	      F61					 kf61
	      F62					 kf62
	      F63					 kf63
	      Alt a		  \ea
	      Alt b		  \eb
	      Alt c		  \ec
	      Alt d		  \ed
	      Alt e		  \ee
	      Alt f		  \ef
	      Alt g		  \eg
	      Alt h		  \eh
	      Alt i		  \ei
	      Alt j		  \ej
	      Alt k		  \ek
	      Alt l		  \el
	      Alt m		  \em
	      Alt n		  \en
	      Alt o		  \eo
	      Alt p		  \ep
	      Alt q		  \eq
	      Alt r		  \er
	      Alt s		  \es
	      Alt t		  \et
	      Alt u		  \eu
	      Alt v		  \ev
	      Alt w		  \ew
	      Alt x		  \ex
	      Alt y		  \ey
	      Alt z		  \ez
	      Alt A		  \eA
	      Alt B		  \eB
	      Alt C		  \eC
	      Alt D		  \eD
	      Alt E		  \eE
	      Alt F		  \eF
	      Alt G		  \eG
	      Alt H		  \eH
	      Alt I		  \eI
	      Alt J		  \eJ
	      Alt K		  \eK
	      Alt L		  \eL
	      Alt M		  \eM
	      Alt N		  \eN
	      Alt O		  \eO
	      Alt P		  \eP
	      Alt Q		  \eQ
	      Alt R		  \eR
	      Alt S		  \eS
	      Alt T		  \eT
	      Alt U		  \eU
	      Alt V		  \eV
	      Alt W		  \eW
	      Alt X		  \eX
	      Alt Y		  \eY
	      Alt Z		  \eZ
	      Alt 0		  \e0
	      Alt 1		  \e1
	      Alt 2		  \e2
	      Alt 3		  \e3
	      Alt 4		  \e4
	      Alt 5		  \e5
	      Alt 6		  \e6
	      Alt 7		  \e7
	      Alt 8		  \e8
	      Alt 9		  \e9
	      Alt Space		  \e\x20
	      Alt Exclamation	  \e!
	      Alt Double Quote	  \e"
	      Alt Pound		  \e#
	      Alt Dollar	  \e$
	      Alt Percent	  \e%
	      Alt Ampersand	  \e&
	      Alt Single Quote	  \e'
	      Alt Left Paren	  \e(
	      Alt Right	Paren	  \e)
	      Alt Asterisk	  \e*
	      Alt Plus		  \e+
	      Alt Comma		  \e,
	      Alt Dash		  \e-
	      Alt Period	  \e.
	      Alt Slash		  \e/
	      Alt Colon		  \e:
	      Alt Semicolon	  \e;
	      Alt Less		  \e<
	      Alt Equals	  \e=
	      Alt Greater	  \e>
	      Alt Question	  \e?
	      Alt At		  \e@
	      Alt Left Bracket	  \e[
	      Alt Backslash	  \e\\
	      Alt Right	Bracket	  \e]
	      Alt Circumflex	  \e^
	      Alt Underscore	  \e_
	      Alt Backtick	  \e`
	      Alt Left Brace	  \e{
	      Alt Pipe		  \e|
	      Alt Right	Brace	  \e}
	      Alt Tilde		  \e~
	      Alt Backspace	  \e\x7F

       Not  all	of these keys are necessarily available	on all types of	termi-
       nals.  This is particularly true	for the	keys with  the	Alt  modifier,
       which  assume  that  the	 terminal  precedes all	characters with	an ESC
       character if Alt	is pressed.

EXIT STATUS
       0      Successful program execution.

       125    The inferior shell or command terminated abnormally.

       126    The emulator has been terminated by an unexpected	signal.

       127    Some fatal error prevented or aborted the	execution of wy60.

       Other  The inferior shell or command returned a non-zero	exit status.

DIAGNOSTICS
       The most	common cause for the emulator to fail is the $TERM environment
       variable	not being set or the terminal  having  insufficient  capabili-
       ties. If	this happens, try using	a more powerful	terminal type and also
       use  infocmp(1M)	to verify that your terminfo(5)	database is configured
       correctly.

       You might also see an error message saying that the terminal size could
       not be determined.  wy60	requires that the terminal settings have  been
       configured  properly  prior to invoking the emulator. This usually hap-
       pens at the time	when you log into the system, but you can also	adjust
       the values by calling stty(1).

       If  the emulator	complains that it cannot launch	the child process then
       verify that $SHELL is set and points to a valid shell.

FILES
       $HOME/.wy60rc	       Per-user	configuration settings.

       /usr/local/etc/wy60.rc  System-wide configuration settings.

       /etc/wy60.rc	       System-wide configuration settings  (this  file
			       must be created manually	and does not get over-
			       written when upgrading wy60).

       /usr/share/terminfo/?/* Files containing	terminal descriptions.

ENVIRONMENT
       The $TERM environment variable must be set for the emulator to work. If
       the  $SHELL  environment	 variable  is  set, its	value will be used for
       launching the inferior shell. Otherwise a  default  filename  is	 taken
       from the	configuration files or /bin/sh is used.

       The emulator sets the $TERM, $COLUMNS, and $LINES environment variables
       for its child processes.

SEE ALSO
       chsh(1),	 infocmp(1M),  lp(1), lpr(1), sh(1), shells(5),	stty(1), SVGA-
       TextMode(8), terminfo(5), tput(1), xterm(1).

SECURITY
       The program can be executed with	normal user privileges.	As  such,  the
       amount of damage	that a malicious application could cause is limited to
       the  user's  account. To	the best of the	author's knowledge the current
       version of wy60 does not	have any security  issues,  but	 common	 sense
       should still be used whenever running any untrusted software within the
       emulator.

AUTHOR
       Copyright      (C)      2001,	  2002	    by	   Markus     Gutschke
       <markus+wy60@wy60.gutschke.com>.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published  by  the
       Free  Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
       option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it	will  be  useful,  but
       WITHOUT	ANY  WARRANTY;	without	 even  the  implied  warranty  of MER-
       CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR	PURPOSE.  See the GNU  General
       Public License for more details.

       You should have received	a copy of the GNU General Public License along
       with this program; if not, write	to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
       59 Temple Place,	Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

MAILING	LIST
       There  is a low-traffic mailing list for	the discussion of this program
       at		    http://gutschke.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/Wy60.
       <http://gutschke.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/Wy60>

TRADEMARKS
       Wyse  and Wyse 60 are trademarks	or registered trademarks of Wyse Tech-
       nology, Inc.

BUGS
       The emulator attempts to	seamlessly switch to  wyse60  emulation.  This
       requires	the ability to query the host terminal for its cursor position
       at  the time when the emulator is started. As terminfo(5) does not pro-
       vide this capability, wy60 can only support  seamless  switching	 on  a
       small number of well known terminal types. If it	does not recognize the
       terminal	type, then the screen will be cleared at startup.

       The  escape sequences for setting the screen size can only be processed
       if the host terminal supports dynamic resizing under  program  control.
       Currently,  xterm(1) appears to be the only program that	has this capa-
       bility.

       Function	keys work only if the host terminal generates distinct charac-
       ter sequences for each of them and if the  terminfo(5)  entry  for  the
       host  terminal  is correct. Frequently one or the other is not the case
       which limits the	usability of the emulator. Testing has shown, that the
       most correct implementation appears to be available in very recent ver-
       sions of	xterm(1).

       The current version of the emulator supports only a small subset	of the
       full features offered by	a real Wyse 60tm terminal. Several of the  ad-
       vanced  features	 are missing. Most notably this	means that there is no
       support for reprogrammable function keys	(but you can use the  configu-
       ration  file  to	 assign	 strings to individual keys) or	for the	status
       bar. Frequently,	the supported set of escape sequences is sufficient to
       run an application within the emulated environment, but	if  that  does
       not  work, you should consider either filing a detailed bug report with
       the author or you should	switch to using	a hardware terminal.

				 Feb 02, 2007			       WY60(1)

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