Re: DBACCESS and DTTERM

Mark Oberfield schrieb in Nachricht ... >>>>>> "Jeff Kalchik" == Jeff Kalchik <jeff_kalchik@spam-me-not.mw.3com.com> writes: > > Jeff Kalchik> On 03 Mar 1998 20:53:00 +0000, Mark Oberfield > Jeff Kalchik> <oberfiel@haze.nws.noaa.gov> wrote: > > [SNIP] > >Jeff, > > I replaced my dtterm entry in $INFORMIXDIR/etc/termcap with the > one you've provided, dbaccess still prints out the same message: > >"The type of your terminal is unknown to the system" > > No matter what I put in the $INFORMIXDIR/etc/termcap file or > what INFORMIXTERM and either TERMCAP or TERMINFO environmental > variables are set to, dbaccess repeats the mantra > >"The type of your terminal is unknown to the system" > > It gets pretty fustrating pretty quick. > > I would like to see what these environmental variables (are there > any other env variables relevant to this problem?) are set to on a > HPUX 10.20 system where dbaccess is happy with TERM set to "dtterm". > > I am running DB-Access Version 5.03.UC1 > > Can anyone else help? > >mgo >-- >"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense." > -- Anonymous If you have a entry for vt100 in /etc/termcap like v1|vt100|vt-100|DEC vt100:\\ replace this with v1|vt100|vt-100|dtterm|DEC vt100:\\ dont forget to unset TERMCAP, INFORMIXTERM. If not, check for $INFORMIXDIR/etc/termcap do the same and set TERMCAP=$INFORMIXDIR/etc/termcap. dbaccess and other applications will work well with vt100 emulation on ddterm or xterm. MfG Dimitrios Dimitrakos