termcap/terminfo (NIC)

["Sean Porterfield" <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First off: Jason, thanks for that explanation of how keys are interpreted.
I'm still a bit fuzzy, but it's not as much like black magic as it used to
seem.

Now, I finally got around to playing with my NIC again (that's from
http://www.thinknic.com for those who don't know.)  I couldn't get tn5250 to
run in my first tests, so I added an xterm so I could run commands and see
the errors produced.

If I run tn5250 without parameters, it prints out the help info as expected.
However, if I provide an IP address or hostname, I get an error.  Sadly, I'm
not near the NIC at this time, but the error was something like "unable to
open xterm"

I thought it meant it couldn't run xterm, which was odd since I was in xterm
running it.  Then I typed `TERM=5250` and ran tn5250 with my hostname
parameter.  Then I got and error telling me it couldn't open tn5250.  So,
that tells me it's the terminfo or termcap that it's having trouble with.

Do I need to rebuild a database after adding the term entry?  Or is it
trying to open read/write which is not possible on a CD?

I tried logging a trace file, but it only put two lines in it which didn't
seem very helpful.

If the term file really needs to be read/write (why?) I could try to
relocate it to flash instead of CD.  Where would I find what is trying to
open the term entry?

Thanks!
Sean

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