Re: xterm and dbaccess

Posted in 1997

Gabor Kincses — Thu, 06 Mar 1997 11:52:58 -0600 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Tim Schaefer wrote: > > We are running on HP-UX 10.20, Informix 7.2. > And I truely HATE using hpterm. > > This platform should have a termcap that will work for you. As the > group would > suggest, RTFM. :-) You might enjoy reading a book I saw in a > bookstore for UNIX > haters. They really railed about termcap and terminal settings. You > can also refer to > the docs that come with an NCD xterm. They cover a lot of information > generic to > many xterms. > As my original posting shows, we are using HP-UX. It seems that the termcap functionality was replaced by the terminfo database. The termcap file is only present to direct your attention to the terminfo stuff. So I guess here is the answer. HP screwed up the standard termcap stuff and Informix didn't bother rewriting the isql utilities to use terminfo. BTW, I do try to RTFM... If you check out my .sig I'm NOT a Unix hater. I'm an hpterm hater. -- Gabor Kincses (gabor@acm.org) Powered by FreeBSD 2.1.5