I installed tcsh using pkg_add on OBSD i386 4.3. The
problem is that tcsh doesn't recognize either left or
right alt key as meta.  Instead I get different
accented characters such as:  (alt-backspace), f
(alt-f), b (alt-b). This is true for both BSD and XTerm
consoles.

The alt keys work fine as meta under the default ksh
shell.  Out of the box, zsh also doesn't recognize the
alt keys.  However, adding "bindkey -m" to ~/.zshrc
appears to "fix" the problem. Unfortunately, tcsh's
bindkey doesn't have this "-m" option. Can somebody
suggest a fix for enabling the console to recognize the
alt keys as meta keys?

I need to use tcsh because this is the shell I use in
OSX and GNU/Linux.

Thanks

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