Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom writes: > > WTF is a compose key? > > look at an honest-to-God DEC VT dumbterm, and you'll see a 'compose' key on > it. other dumbterms probably have them as well. > As Mr. Goldman implies, it's used for composing foreign characters like the > Spanish characters that have the ~ over them, and such like. Apparently Suns have these. I gave away my Sun 2 a while ago (I hope it's found a happy home), so I can't verify this.