Re: Why doesn't Informix understand my terminal type

Posted in 1998

Dejan Ternjej — Fri, 18 Dec 1998 17:10:33 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Jonathan Leffler wrote: > Phill Edwards wrote: > > > > When I run dbaccess I get the error "The type of your terminal is > > unknown to the system". The TERMINAL variable is xterm. Even if I change > > it to vt100 I still get the same error. Can anyone please explain how > > I can fix this. > > export TERMCAP=$INFORMIXDIR/etc/termcap > > You probably do not have a file /etc/termcap. > You may want to check the IIUG archives for an xterm termcap entry. > http://www.iiug.org/ > > -- > Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) > Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN > #include <disclaimer.h> OR export INFORMIXTERM=terminfo(then informix uses terminfo instead of termcap)