Re: xterm and dbaccess

Posted in 1997

Tim Schaefer — Thu, 06 Mar 1997 18:58:56 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Gabor Kincses wrote: Tim Schaefer wrote: 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. Sorry didn't mean to imply you hated UNIX. I was only pointing out that your frustration is not uncommon, to the point that a group of people actually wrote a book about UNIX-things-they-hate. Unfortunately the HW'folks haven't read this book. I've had similar experience/frustration in the past, and quite often if the basic display comes up I'm happy. And I'm sure you read the manuals too. You'll notice tput doesn't work right either, and AIX'suffers from this too. Best wishes for success with it... :-) Tim -- Gabor Kincses (gabor@acm.org) Powered by FreeBSD 2.1.5