OT: broken/useless ansi - console driver??

[Bob Stockler]

John Esak wrote (on Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:22:13PM -0400):

| > So, after reading this thread long enough, I logged in on another
| > console multiscreen.  My terminal was announced as being at386-ei.
| >
| > On executing p the filePro Main Menu displayed as expected.  Then,
| > on going into a filePro file (fpcust) using dclerk, from there
| > everything looked as usual except the EOF markers were just little
| > dots in midline (I hadn't made the tremcap edit JPR suggested).
| >
| Don't know how this is possible, Bob. If you logged in and saw that you were
| at386-ei... *and* everything looked right in filePro, then something is
| untold here. Since there is NO at386-ei termcap in filePro, all I can guess
| is JP added one for you unbeknonst to you. Or, you are still going through
| FacetWin and not really going upstairs to your comptuer room and logging in
| on the actual console. (Still I wouldn't think anything would look right in
| filePro unless someone hadn't given you some help.)

I didn't install filePro 5.0.14D4 until October 10, 2005 -
a month after I installed OSR 6.  The date-time stamp on
the $PFPROG/fp/termcap file is the same as that on the
viewprt and termcap_5.0.14D4 files and the scripts and
util directories, and 9 minutes earlier than that on the
fpinstall.log.  So no one has touched it since tne install.

And I definitely went upstairs and logged in on the OSR 6
system to a console multiscreen and saw that the TERM was
at386-ei just before I got a shell prompt.

  -rwsr-xr-x  1 filepro  sys    798124 Oct 12  2004 rreport
  -r--r--r--  1 filepro  group   50934 Oct 13  2004 read.me
  drwxr-xr-x  2 filepro  sys        96 Oct 10 14:18 docs
  -rwxr-xr-x  1 root     sys      5405 Oct 10 14:32 viewprt
  -rwxr-xr-x  1 root     sys     51323 Oct 10 14:32 termcap_5.0.14D4
  -rw-r--r--  1 filepro  sys     51345 Oct 10 14:32 termcap
  drwx------  2 root     sys      2048 Oct 10 14:32 scripts
  drwxr-xr-x  5 filepro  sys      2048 Oct 10 14:32 util
  -rw-r--r--  1 root     sys       847 Oct 10 14:41 fpinstall.log

Exerpt from $PFPROG/fp/termcap:

# The following entry is for the Unixware Console. It was reconstructed via 
# infocmp from file: /usr/share/lib/terminfo/A/AT386-ie.
# LE=\E[%dD had to be removed because it conflicted with LE=F8 in filepro.
# This termcap has at least 1 problem.  Ctrl-O does not work. jmr
a4|AT386-ie|at386-ie|386AT-ie|386at-ie|at/386 console @(#)386.ti 1.4:\

Want me to send you the termcap?

Bob

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