Re: Handling Terminals (fwd)

Roger says: } } In article <2rtfqj$j41@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> you write: } >Be sure to check the release notes under $INFORMIXDIR/etc/release as more } >current versions of Informix do NOT SUPPORT TERMINFO. You can still set } >INFORMIXTERM, but it is ignored and termcap is still used. } } 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. } } Rodger Anderson } It clears up my befuddled mind. j. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker | Be frank and explicit with your Hewlett Packard, BSMC Boise, Idaho, USA| lawyer.... It's his business to jparker@hpbs3645.boi.hp.com | confuse the issue afterwards. (208) 396-5388 (W) (208) 384-1623 (H) | - J. R. Solly _____________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. _____________________________________________________________________________