dbaccess - terminal type error

Posted in 2004

Summary

Ganesh Balasubramanian got a dbaccess error that the terminal type was unknown. Ravi T. asked for onstat - output; Larry Beckley said the problem was the TERM setting. Carlos Santizo suggested export TERM=vt100, and Fernando Garcia suggested export TERM=ansi in .profile with an ANSI terminal emulator. No confirmation from the poster.

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GANESH BALASUBRAMANIAN — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:16:53 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

when i do a dbaccess, i get the following error The type of your terminal is unknown to the system Ever seen that? What's the fix?

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Ravi T — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 17:37:56 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

What do you get when you do a "onstat -" ? "GANESH BALA...." <ganesh_balasubramanian@keybank.com> wrote:when i do a dbaccess, i get the following error The type of your terminal is unknown to the system Ever seen that? What's the fix? --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want.

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Carlos Santizo — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:35:54 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

type: $> export TERM=vt100 Regards, Carlos Santizo -----Mensaje original----- De: forum.subscriber@iiug.org [mailto:forum.subscriber@iiug.org]En nombre de GANESH BALA.... Enviado el: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:17 AM Para: ids@iiug.org Asunto: dbaccess - terminal type error [2565] when i do a dbaccess, i get the following error The type of your terminal is unknown to the system Ever seen that? What's the fix?

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Larry Beckley — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 21:13:28 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

The problem is in your TERM environment setting. What OS are you running under? Larry -----Original Message----- From: GANESH BALA.... [mailto:ganesh_balasubramanian@keybank.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 8:17 AM To: ids@iiug.org Subject: dbaccess - terminal type error [2565] when i do a dbaccess, i get the following error The type of your terminal is unknown to the system Ever seen that? What's the fix?

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FERNANDO GARCIA — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:10:12 — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Hi. We use Informix on HPUX and Linux. For dbaccess to work we need to define the TERM variable: $ export TERM=ansi You can put this line in your .profile or somewhere else. For correct video visualization, we also use an ANSI terminal emulator; if you use another term emulator (wyse60 for instance) you'll get wrong video data on your session. Hope to help.

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