Re: DBACCESS problem on Red Linux 6.2
Your shell has uploaded the termcap entry into the TERMCAP environment variable. The buffer for environment vars is too short for most termcap strings. Reset TERMCAP=/path/to/your/termcap/file whatever that is and you should be fine. It is possible that the string in the file is too long for the termcap library buffer (which was once defined at 2K max) so you will either have to take David's advice and switch to TERMINFO or shorten the entry you are using. Art S. Kagel James Jiang wrote: > > Hi > DBACCESS screen does not appear after installing informix dynamic > server (or > informix SE). The error message is as follow: > > Termcap entry too long > The type of your termianl is unknown to the system. > > I would approciate if anyone could help me on this. > > Thanks > James
"Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> writes: > Your shell has uploaded the termcap entry into the TERMCAP environment > variable. The buffer for environment vars is too short for most termcap > strings. Reset TERMCAP=/path/to/your/termcap/file whatever that is and > you should be fine. It is possible that the string in the file is too long > for the termcap library buffer (which was once defined at 2K max) so you > will either have to take David's advice and switch to TERMINFO or shorten > the entry you are using. The release notes specifically state that terminfo isn't supported in the Linux ports. Use "TERM=vt100" and consider yourself lucky. -- Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142 President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B
On 26 Sep 2000, Ronald Cole wrote: > The release notes specifically state that terminfo isn't supported > in the Linux ports. Use "TERM=vt100" and consider yourself lucky. That was one reason to upgrade to SE 7.24 UC8 for Linux; it did not state this specifically any longer, and there were other changes (major differences and improvements) so that it made sense to get UC8 (if one uses SE on Linux), for example for the seipcpip (officially supported in UC8).
Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> writes: > "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> writes: > > Your shell has uploaded the termcap entry into the TERMCAP environment > > variable. The buffer for environment vars is too short for most termcap > > strings. Reset TERMCAP=/path/to/your/termcap/file whatever that is and > > you should be fine. It is possible that the string in the file is too long > > for the termcap library buffer (which was once defined at 2K max) so you > > will either have to take David's advice and switch to TERMINFO or shorten > > the entry you are using. > > The release notes specifically state that terminfo isn't supported > in the Linux ports. Use "TERM=vt100" and consider yourself lucky. OR... upgrade to RedHat 7.0. The boys at RedHat fixed their termcap shenanigans and so "TERM=xterm" works again without complaint for Informix products on Linux. Even better in 7.0, vim doesn't leave a little cookie on your screen anymore. Moral of the story: avoid RH6.1 and 6.2. -- Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142 President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B
In article <m31yxktk5w.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com>, Ronald Cole wrote: >Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> writes: >> "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> writes: >> > Your shell has uploaded the termcap entry into the TERMCAP environment >> > variable. The buffer for environment vars is too short for most termcap >> > strings. Reset TERMCAP=/path/to/your/termcap/file whatever that is and >> > you should be fine. It is possible that the string in the file is too long >> > for the termcap library buffer (which was once defined at 2K max) so you >> > will either have to take David's advice and switch to TERMINFO or shorten >> > the entry you are using. >> >> The release notes specifically state that terminfo isn't supported >> in the Linux ports. Use "TERM=vt100" and consider yourself lucky. > >OR... upgrade to RedHat 7.0. The boys at RedHat fixed their termcap >shenanigans and so "TERM=xterm" works again without complaint for >Informix products on Linux. Or don't so you stil have a supported compiler.. -- Roger Think of the mess on the carpet. Sensible people do all their demon-summoning in the garage, which you can just hose down afterwards. -- damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk
roger@knuth.computer-surgery.co.uk (Roger Gammans) writes: > Or don't so you stil have a supported compiler.. Red herring. RedHat 7.0 has 6.2 compatibility packages. However, back on topic, IDS7.3 was ported on RedHat 5.2, which was using the "very beta" glibc-2.0 (I really wish Informix had waited a month for the 6.0 release to do the port on). You still have to use the 5.2 compatibility packages (which didn't make it on the RedHat 7.0 release) for c4gl to work. -- Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142 President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B