Re: Handling Terminals (fwd)

Jack Parker (jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com) wrote: > Roger says: > } > } I don't think it has anything to do with how current the version is. > } It has to do with being the HP version. Terminfo support came with > } version 4 (I think), or at least, that was when I first found > } documentation for it. I called Informix when I couldn't get it to > } work. They said that HPs version of curses (terminfo) was too old for > } their product, so they had no choice but to use their own version of > } curses. > It clears up my befuddled mind. Well, I've never understood it myself and when I mentioned this in a posting last year, I got myself shredded by an HP employee for making such a claim. (But I still like Frank and am glad he's active on usenet :-) I was just quoting what I had gotten out of an Informix internal memo that had been faxed to me after I badgered Informix support for several months. Actually, they claimed in that memo that a whole list of vendors (including IBM, but I forget the platform) had "defective implementations" or words to that effect. Interestingly, Informix's response seemed to be just to not compile the terminfo support into the distribution software without even a release note to warn the customer. Sigh... -- Jim Holbach | The more I know, jholbach@crl.com | the less I understand.