Re: A couple of questions...

On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 03:00:43PM -0600, stevefx@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Could someone please explain to me what this does? I thought it was just so
> that you could get F21-F24 to work? The statement "so that I can use
> xt5250" makes me wondering if I'm missing something here. I'm using

xt5250 tells xterm to use the xterm-5250 terminal type, provided by tic
(or in /etc/termcap).  If it doesn't exist, the xterm exits immediately.  Or
at least my version of xterm does ... Description of what exactly the
xterm-5250 definition does is below...

> Mandrake 6.1 and xt5250 works just fine for me (with the exception of the
> End and Field Exit keys...but I may have not set those up right???). I went

I just modified and trapped for the End key in the terminfo which will be in
the next 0.15.x release and the next 0.14.x release.  Field Exit is a different
story...

> into the linux subdir and issued the 'tic' command but I didn't notice any
> other files created. What is the "proper place"?  I saw something else

The proper place on my machine happens to be /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-5250,
although I know that on another box it was /usr/lib/terminfo/x/xterm-5250...
where it really goes is a matter of distribution preference.  I'm on a RH5.2
box right now.

> about setting the TERM variable from xterm to xterm-5250. What does this
> do?

This tells curses-based programs to use the terminal definition named
'xterm-5250'.  The differences between the two include the color support
(xterm-color terminal type also supports this), and pseudo-key mappings for
keys which you can't typically trap for in an xterm.  The other end of those
keys (making xterm generate escape codes it typically won't) is what is in 
the Xdefaults file.

> 
> The reason I ask is because I have a cow-orker running RH6.1 and xt5250
> does weird things for him.

What specifically?

> 
> Sorry for all the questions and TIA for any answers...
> 
> Steve Fox
> http://w3.rchland.ibm.com/~sjfox (IBM Intranet)
> http://pcxtreme.org (Personal)
> http://k-lug.com (Rochester Linux User Group)

:) I like you :)

>

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice
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