Re: terminal not working properly

Lewis Kok wrote: > > I telnet from my windows95 to my HP and has a term type ansi. It works > as it supposed to do even in sam, but when I login to informix and go > into dbaccess, I got nonreadable chars and can't get out of it. I have > to disconnect the session and kill the process later. > > My supervisor has a terminal emulation sw but that would be my last > resort. Does anybody have experience on what type of term work best in > dbaccess? TIA. > > Lewis Kok > lkok@comark.com Terminal software that comes bundled "free" with other stuff is often worth every penny you pay for it. You need to know what terminal the sw is supposed to emulate and set your TERM environment for that. It may be, however, that the sw does not exactly emulate the terminal in which case you may need to create a new termcap entry based on the original. It may even be that your sw may not even be consistent in operation - my current site uses sw which seems to have problems. I understand Talking Windows operates well in your environment (I know a site that's using it with a lot of users and havn't heard of problems there). My preference, however, would be to get an X server on the PC and use xterm. (SAM works well under X as well). Ian PS, they may have fixed it now but in earlier versions there was a problem with elm -z setting VT100 and relatives (including xterm) to keypad mode if there was no mail to display. I had elm -z in my .cshrc and isql had problems which went away if I ran vi. Eventually I got an incantation involving tput which was run after elm and which fixed it. Surely they don't still have that bug?..... Ian