Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Alexei Malinin <alexei.mali...@mail.ru> wrote:
>
>> I often worked on OpenBSD AMD/Intel PC consoles and really did not have
>> good support of navigation and function keys of a typical PC keyboard.
>
> Part of the problem is that wscons(4) and xterm(1) strive to emulate
> a DEC VT220 terminal whose LK201 keyboard is quite different from
> the PS/2 layout.
>
>> I think that the default "vt220" is not well suited for an AMD/Intel
>> consoles
>
> "wsvt25" is a better description, 

I do not think so, there are no support for typical PC keyboard
function keys and several other capabilities in "wsvt25" if
the last is used on OpenBSD AMD/Intel consoles

> but if you log into a non-OpenBSD
> system that terminal name may be unknown.

terminal descriptions proposed by me are intended for
OpenBSD consoles only (these descriptions are of
questionable value in other systems)

I think it is possible for ncurses and termtype.master maintainers
to add my descriptions to appropriate places :)


--
Alexei Malinin

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