Re: terminfo and 4.10 and hp9000

Jack Parker says: > 1 - The 4.10 4gl supplement states the usual stuff about INFORMIXTERM > and how it can be set to termcap or terminfo. (p S-191). It also > states that hp does not support terminfo. I can't comment on the 4gl products. We use ESQL/C, ISQL and OnLine (everything 5.0 except ISQL is now 4.11, but we still have the 4.10 release notes files in our HP system). Remember, this discussion began with the IBM RS/6000 platform. This appears to be a port-specific issue, but after it came up for IBM, I also looked at our HP release note files. > 2 - I checked the release notes for our box here (4.10 again) - there is no > mention of the topic. I looked at the release note files on the system: ISQL_4.1, ONLINE_5.0, ONLINE_4.1, ESQLC_5.0 and ESQLC_4.1. The ESQLC files did not mention it at all, the others said "terminfo not supported". > 3 - I set INFORMIXTERM=terminfo and ran our current application and could > find no fault with the way the code interacted with the screen. Of > course I could not tell the difference - since we don't use color and > our terminfo/termcap entries are close to identical. My cohort discovered the problem (I'm not certain now which platform he found it on) because there was no termcap entry for the terminal type he was using -- he confirmed there was a terminfo entry, but it still tried to use termcap, even after INFORMIXTERM=terminfo. -- Bryan Klopfenstein bryan@carsinfo.com CARS Information Systems, Inc. Cincinnati, OH Standard Disclaimers Apply