Re: tn5250 0.15.7 problem?

[Jose Sanchez <jsanchez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jason M. Felice" wrote:

> If you have features the dumb terminal supports and your termcap entry
doesn't
> you will most likely need to hand-craft your own termcap or terminfo
entry

Well, this morning I took a look at the ibm3151 entry in the version
10.2.7 of
terminfo (RedHat comes with version 9.x) and it kind of worked. I
noticed that
after doing some initialization, it then uses the 3163 entry for the
function keys
and such. I played around with it and got a much better display (it
really looks
like a 3196 display...almost!) when using the ibm3161 entry, but still
no function
keys. I have the manuals for the 3151 (operations and the one for the
adapter card
that emulates a WYSE50) but not the programmer's reference manual.
Checked with
IBM and it's out of print. Guess I'll have to play around with the
terminfo entry
and see what happens.

> TERM=ibm3151
> export TERM
> tput init

Tried the above and it seems to work great...so I figured what the heck,
so I
tried TERM=ibm3161 instead of 3151. Like I said above, the screen
displays almost
as good as a real 3196. But (isn't there always more than one but in my
e-mails?)
when I try to go to a man page, I get a message that says something
about the
terminal not being properly initialized...so like I mentioned
previously, I guess
I'll have to play around with the terminfo entries...

> -Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice

Thank you very much for your help (and everybody else...) and I will
keep you
posted to any changes. BTW, to compile the lp5250d program, do I just
need to
download the lp5250d.c file or is there more to it than that? Will
lp5250d be
distributed as a separate package?

Once again, thanks for your time Jay, Mike (1 and 2), et al.

Jose


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