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Article #161termcap problem with Unify 4GL
From: Steve de Simon
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 05:07
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 05:07
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Since my posting in comp.databases didn't get a great response, I'll try asking here for help with this problem. We are working with a software package which is written in the Unify 4GL, and does not display properly on Hewlett-Packard terminals. Although it does work on a VT220 or Wyse terminal, it is a requirement that it work on HP terminals and HP terminal emulation on PCs. Unify 4GL uses termcap, but HP uses terminfo and has no conversion tools to go back from a terminfo file to a termcap file, only the other way around. Are there any Unify 4GL users out there who have solved this problem already? The folks at Unify have been unable to make it work so far. Here's an example of one problem: Unify will put up "dialog" boxes on the screen using the terminal's line-drawing character set, but when later screens are written over those boxes, those lines stay in line-drawing mode and so the characters come out as an unreadable jumble of line segments, rather than text characters. I'm not familiar enough with either termcap or terminfo to help myself, but I'm hoping that we'll find someone who has seen this problem before and worked it out through this posting.Please email your suggestions to: steve@hpuplca.nsr.hp.com.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!lll-winken!hpuplca!steve From: steve@hpuplca.nsr.hp.com ( Steve de Simon) Newsgroups: comp.terminals Subject: termcap problem with Unify 4GL Message-ID: <26300001@hpuplca.nsr.hp.com> Date: 10 Aug 92 05:07:23 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Neely Golden Gate Area (Northern Calif.) Lines: 18