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- From: andy@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Andy Hart)
- Subject: HP Termcap
- Message-ID: <BtJqKn.2wp@cmptrc.lonestar.org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 15:48:22 GMT
- Distribution: WORLD
- Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX
- Keywords: HP 70092 2392A
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- I am having the same problem as a fellow who posted a message a while back
- re problems with HP terminals and UNIFY-4GL. (I tried to reply, but my
- email message came back undeliverable)
-
- I am using Informix 4GL v. 4.10 on an HP 9000/837. Informix only supports
- termcap while HP only supports terminfo. When using the hp termcap, I am
- having the following problems:
-
- 1) Line drawing mode does not work properly. I have set the gs, ge,
- and gb termcap attributes per the Informix manual. When a window
- is displayed and then closed, the text underneath the borders of
- the window is left "trashed" in the alternate character set.
-
- 2) When displaying something in standout mode (reverse video) in a
- window, "holes" get punched in the right side of my window.
-
- 3) I THINK we have the function keys working properly, but I would
- still like to try to remap the informix accept key (default, escape)
- to be the block enter key.
-
- We have worked out a kludge solution. I created a shell script to launch the
- application which checks the term type using the termtype command. If it's
- an hp terminal, I am sending the proper control chars to force the terminal
- into ANSI emulation, saving off the current value of $TERM, and setting
- $TERM to vt100. This works fine because the vt100 termcap appears to be
- complete, but I'm not sure that it's a viable long term solution.
-
- Does ANYONE have complete termcap entries for 70092, 70094, 2392A, etc?
- Has ANYONE used informix with HP terminals like this and had better luck
- than me? Please respond via email... I anxiously await your reply. If
- there's no help out there, I guess I'll have to tear into this problem, but
- I'm under a short deadline and your help will be GREATLY appreciated!!!
-
- Thanks.
-
- -- andy (andy@cmptrc.lonestar.org)
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