Re: DBACCESS and DTTERM

I forced the system to use xterm...ie in the win mgr I called the xterm and not dtterm...are you useing hp x stations..if so I do belive you can set the host so xterm is the default term...jb ! In article <34fea45a.1490171@news.usr.com>, jeff_kalchik@spam-me-not.mw.3com.com (Jeff Kalchik) writes: > On 04 Mar 1998 16:15:21 +0000, Mark Oberfield > <oberfiel@haze.nws.noaa.gov> wrote: > >>>>>>> "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? > > I just logged in to my Informix server and ran..... > > $ set | egrep "^IN|^TERM" > INFORMIXDIR=/usr/informix > INFORMIXSERVER=ktest > INFORMIXSQLHOSTS=/usr/informix/etc/sqlhosts> TERM=dtterm > TERMCAP=/usr/informix/etc/termcap > TERMINAL_EMULATOR=dtterm > > dbaccess runs fine with the above settings. > > > > ------------------------------- > Views expressed are my own, not > necessarily my employer's.