If you work in a Unix environment with the wrong terminal type set, you should keep in mind that not all keys on your keyboard will be available in the expected way. If this is the case you should reset your terminal type. For example if you want to correct your terminal type to dxterm, you have to enter
TERM= dxterm; export TERM - Bourne Shell
setenv TERM dxterm - C Shell
On dumb terminals, there may be applications that cannot work
correctly because they require hardware features not available.
However, many Unix commands can be used in such an environment: e.g. to
compile and run user programs, or to look into the file system.
If you have changed the size of your window or changed your terminal type, this change may not be recognised by some applications unless you execute the resize command, usually via the command eval `resize`.
There are also a number of 'special' keys that can be used, but their use can be restricted by shell and/or keyboard:
