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- From: mparsons@fleming.csc.bcm.tmc.edu (Mark Parsons)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.sybase
- Subject: Re: PC APT Clients on Sun Servers
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 14:32:41 GMT
- Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
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- References: <1gb8vjINNdt5@male.EBay.Sun.COM>
- Reply-To: mparsons@fleming.csc.bcm.tmc.edu (Mark Parsons)
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- In article <1gb8vjINNdt5@male.EBay.Sun.COM>, college@vivaldi.EBay.Sun.COM (Darrell Choy) writes:
- |> I have a colleague who is looking into an application that runs on Suns and uses
- |> APT forms. I'd like to know what is the most effective way to run PC clients
- |> to have access to the Sybase dataserver on the Sun through the APT forms.
-
- Most(All?) of our applications run on xterms and vt100's, accessing the
- same dataservers. When accessing the dataserver from the vt100's(the
- xterms as well, I guess) you may want to redefine some of your keys,
- e.g., the function keys, etc. And of course, you need to set up
- your environment variables appropriately(which you have to do anyway,
- right? ;-)
-
- The one thing that will cause you problems is if you did your APT
- screen design in xterms and allowed for forms greater than 77 characters
- in width. Application screens that are more than 77 characters in
- width will *bomb* when run in vt100 mode. Also, even if your screens
- are no more than 77 characters in width . . . . if your menu items
- (all totalled together) are greater than 77 characters(which can
- happen even if the screen is only 77) your screen will also *bomb*.
-
- Moral of the story, test all screens in vt100 mode before going
- productional . . . duh!? ;-)
-
- Mark
-
- p.s. -- APT 5.0 will allow you to define the max width of a screen
- for any terminal type soooooooo, you could set the default
- to 77 characters(xterms and vt100s) and not worry about
- possible problems.
-