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- From: jparker@hpbs2776.boi.hp.com (Jack Parker)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: hp termcap/terminfo
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 11:38:14 -0500
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- Reply-To: jparker@hpbs2776.boi.hp.com (Jack Parker)
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-
- (Author's note to hisself)
- Let's try sending it to the Net this time dummy!
- Sorry Kacy for the dupe.
-
- > Anybody got a good termcap/terminfo entry for an hp tube? (Yeah, I know, look
- > where I'm working!). Specifically I'm wondering if there is a solution to the
- > magic-cookie-glitch for this thing.
- >
- > Also, has anybody ever got Informix to use attributes like DIM, UNDERLINE, or
- > BLINK in a DISPLAY on an hp tube? REVERSE is ok, but no others.
- >
- > Me, too! I can't find a way to get hpterms or xterms to run
- > isql, tbmonitor, vi, and man consistently in the same window.
- >
-
- I played around for a while and got the hp supported attributes to work from
- the os, but not from informix!
-
- For those of you who care,
-
- :mb=\E&dA:mh=\E&dH:us=\E&dD:\ # blink, dim, underline
-
- I prefer:
-
- :so=\E&dJ: # for standout which informix actually uses!
-
- which frees up:
-
- :mr=\E&dB: # for reverse as it should be.
-
-
- For those of you using terminfo it would be (in the same order):
-
- blink=\E&dA, dim=..., smul=..., smso=..., rev=...
-
- For those of you who don't know how to terminfo:
- (1) do an untic into a local directory (./),
- (2) make your changes to the file ./h/$TERM
- (3) TERMINFO=./
- (4) tic ./h/$TERM
- (5) and try it. If you like it get your sysadmin to make the changes to
- /usr/lib/terminfo/h/$TERM (or whatever your hp $TERM is)
-
- you can mix your own as follows:
- # \E&dx: where x is: @ off, A blink, B RV, C RV_Blink, D UL, E UL_Blink,
- # F RV_UL, G RV_UL_Blink, H Dim, I Dim_Blink, J RV_Dim,
- # K RV_Dim_Blink, L UL_Dim, M UL_Dim_Blink, N RV_UL_Dim
- # O All 4
-
- My particular monitor doesn't do the blink (which is fine by me!), but the
- codes are right.
-
- I went through the Informix termcap (which is almost identical to /etc/termcap)
- and tested what I could of hp functionality. It seems to work pretty much ok.
- (Aside from the various documented problems). I have another message in to the
- termcap guru, I gather from the terminfo documentation and news that the highlight
- is, not a bug, but rather a known area of non-conformance.
-
- Although I did this on HP's time in an effort to solve problems we are having,
- it most certainly does not have HP's blessing. Even if I were a real person
- and not a keyboard-for-hire.
-
-
- still looking for Mrs. Goodterm,
- j.
-
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