Re: Handling Terminals

> > Jack Parker (jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com) wrote: > > Roger says: > > } > > } I don't think it has anything to do with how current the version is. > > } It has to do with being the HP version. Terminfo support came with > > } version 4 (I think), or at least, that was when I first found > > } documentation for it. I called Informix when I couldn't get it to > > } work. They said that HPs version of curses (terminfo) was too old for > > } their product, so they had no choice but to use their own version of > > } curses. > > > It clears up my befuddled mind. > > Well, I've never understood it myself and when I mentioned this in a posting > last year, I got myself shredded by an HP employee for making such a claim. > (But I still like Frank and am glad he's active on usenet :-) Could have been me back when I didn't understand. If so I apologize. I remember such an incident not too very long ago - somebody called me to task and we went offline and discovered - lo and behold that the hp version did not support terminfo and was documented as not doing so in the release notes. I thought I had come back and issued an apology at the time. Perhaps not. > > Interestingly, Informix's response seemed to be just to not compile the > terminfo support into the distribution software without even a release > note to warn the customer. Sigh... > Actually that was the tone of my original reply - check $INFORMIXDIR/etc/release for the release notes of your specific machine. Note also - I don't have a filesystem in front of me, so I'm whistling up that path from memory which could always be defective. cheers j. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker | Hewlett Packard, BSMC Boise, Idaho, USA| With friends like these jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com | who needs enemas? (208) 396-5388 (W) (208) 384-1623 (H) | _____________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. _____________________________________________________________________________