Re: Screen problems ?

In article <PxjRy0ElJzEM091yn@kcbbs.gen.nz>, Kerry Sainsbury <kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz> writes >In article <51ucsi$ibt@nic.global-one.no>, >Nils.Myklebust@idg.no (Nils Myklebust) wrote: >>SR <sean_rooney@bfs.unibol.com> wrote: >> >>:Hi, I have just upgraded an application from Aix 2.2, Informix 4gl v1 >>:running on an IBM RT. The system is now running on a Pentium 150 server >>:with 48megs of RAM, running SCO Openserver 5 and Informix 4GL latest >>:release, with the latest release of the Standard Engine. >> >>:Anyhow, the problem is this - the users are complaining that their >>:application screens are now "jerky". For instance, when displaying an >>:informix form to the terminal, the form with build to 75% of the screen. >>:There will then be a short pause and then the rest of the form will be >>:displayed followed by their query data. The terminal emualtion is >>:perfect using TERMCAP (informix). > >I understand that Informix decided to use their own version of "curses" >somewhere in the 6.x 4GL product line. This has resulted in at least one >weird screen refresh problem with a 6.04 (I'm fairly certain) version >we're developing with on Solaris. > >Maybe yours is a related problem. > >Cheers, >Kerry S >------------------------------------,------------------------------------------ >Kerry Sainsbury, kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz | THE INFORMIX FAQ v2.5 June 96 >Quanta Systems, Auckland | http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/ >New Zealand. Work: +64 9 377-4473 | ftp://ftp.iiug.org/pub/informix/faq > Home: +64 9 279-3571 | ftp://kcbbs.gen.nz:/pub/informix/ My understanding was that they had always used their own version. -- David Williams