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In article <1991Jun21.155750.23070@shl.com> lbrooks@shl.com (Lyle Brooks) writes:
>/* I type in "i" to insert, followed by the string, followed by <ESC>
> * the F11 key.
> */
>	abc deg hfi
>
>/* And I get the following... See the "i" changes to "I" and the cursor
> * moves back a character.
> */
>	abc deg hfI

>I further know that when I am at the shell prompt and hit the F11 (ESC) key
>followed by a <RETURN> I get ...
>
>^[[23~ not found
>
>I've been told that the "~" in vi is what is changing the case.  I tried to 

>I know this is a work around, but after I fought the battle this long...

You've pretty much summed it up - DEC vt200- and vt300-series ttys use
the LK-201 keyboard.  One "feature" of this keyboard is that ESC (F11)
sends a known character sequence, which you described, above.
DEC-designed O/Ss (ie, VMS) know about this, since they only support
DEC ttys.  I use a vt320 at home, and get around this by just using
ctrl-[ intead of F11/"ESC".  The only alternative I can think of is to
program the key on the terminal to actually send the 0x1B character
(ESC).  I wrote a utility to do this once, but it was lost long ago.
It's a royal pain-in-the-butt to program them, but if there is enough
interest, I'll rewrite it with a nice interface.

--Dave
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