Re: Help with Termcap for Wyse 50?

Charles V. Leonard wrote: > > Does anybody have or know where I can get a hold of a Termcap file > that > will work for a Wyse 50? The Informix application I have will not > work > correctly with the Termcap file I have (the Wyse 50 definition in this > file is not totally accurate). > > The problems seems to be with reverse video. It overdraws the screen > area (i.e. when an Informix 4gl field is being displayed). This > causes > the highlighted field to wrap around to the next line if it's close to > the edge of the right hand side of the screen. And the hightlight > also > will partially wipe out the first few characters of an adjacent field. > > Has anybody seen this problem or know of a Termcap file that can solve > this? Have you tried the informix termcap file? TERMCAP=$INFORMIXDIR/etc/termcap The key to this problem is setting the Informix value for ZG to 1: ZG#1 This indicates that the terminal outputs an extra character when displaying attributes. Hope that helps, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ |Mark D. Stock - Informix SA http://www.informix.com |//////// /| |mailto:mdstock@informix.com FAQ http://www.iiug.org |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | Tel: +27 11 807 0313 |If it's slow, the users complain. |/// / ////| | Fax: +27 11 807 2594 |If it's fast, the users keep quiet.|// / /////| |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Therefore, "No news: travels fast"!|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+