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- From: wkaufman@us.oracle.com (William Kaufman)
- Subject: Re: Terminal types, recognition of...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.210357.22834@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:03:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug12.212237.17532@unixg.ubc.ca> george@unixg.ubc.ca (George chow) writes:
- ] In article <1992Aug12.022036.9693@oracle.us.oracle.com>, wkaufman@us.oracle.com (William Kaufman) writes:
- ] |>
- ] |> Well, it'll look for a terminal named "xterm" in your oraterm.r. If
- ] |> it doesn't find it (and, in the default oraterm.r, it might not), the
- ] |> program will warn you and halt.
- ]
- ] Ah, so oraterm.r is an index of sorts...
-
- Ummm, not sure how you mean "index". It's the default resource
- file: unless you specify one with the "-c" option, your terminal name
- better be listed in there.
-
- ] Maybe I should have said that I was really more interested in the file oraterm.r.
- ] I was slightly confused because my ORATERMPATH points to a directory which
- ] contains xterm.r, vt100.r, and a few others.
-
- ...and oraterm.r, I hope!
-
- ] Since I know that if I come in from
- ] a vt100 terminal that things are okay, I couldn't understand why coming in from
- ] an xterm would be different. So, the answer is that oraterm.r needs to have an
- ] entry for xterm inside it before it will even start looking for xterm.r.
-
- The tools (Forms, Menu, etc.) will only look at one file--oraterm.r,
- or whatever you specify; {terminal}.r won't be looked at. And, most
- product lines ship an oraterm.r that only contains definitions for the
- VT terminals--that's why your VT worked OK, but your xterm didn't.
-
- A single resource file *can* contain more than one terminal, though.
- If you've got a set of terminals that always get used, you can put them
- all in a single oraterm.r using the "oraterm" program. Then, you only
- have to be sure that the default terminal is set properly--on UNIX, that
- means setting your $TERM variable correctly.
-
- (Convert the above into your OS's language,...)
-
- -- Bill K.
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