Converting old file pro processing tables

[Bob Stockler]

Ken Brody wrote (on Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:26:14PM -0400):

| Quoting Bob Stockler (Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:51:24 -0400):
| 
| > Brian wrote:
| >
| > | Two problems:
| > |
| > | $PFME changes the behaviour of filepro input prompts and so you should
| > hard
| > | code it in the script to match the expectations of the string you are
| > | feeding dcabe.
| >
| > ISFAIK, PFME applies only to {dr]clerk, and NOT to [dr]cabe.
| 
| PFME affects all of filePro.
| 
| > | $TERM changes what is really correct in place of EscEsc, so you should
| > hard
| > | code TERM=<something known in everyones fp/termcap> in the script too.
| > | I should have just done that myself instead of making a variable and
| > telling
| > | the user in comments that they have to edit that variable.
| >
| > Also, ISFAIK, filePro on UNIX recognizes [Escape][Escape] as SAVE,
| > so echoing "\033\033" to it should suffice no matter what TERN is
| > set to.
| 
| filePro only recognizes ESC-ESC as SAVE if the termcap has P4 set to
| that sequence for the given TERM/PFTERM.

OK, ISFAIKIDKA (In-So-Far-As-I-Know-I-Don't-Know-Anything) . . .

Re PFME I was going by the 5.6 "config.hlp" file, even though it's
in the section (which I didn't notice before):

  "Enviornmental Variables: Other that Effect All programs"

  1.0  PFME=ON  Waits for Return key to be pressed for next
                field. Default is OFF. (*clerk)
                                       ^^^^^^^^
Why is the underlined text there to mislead me ???

Re "P4=\E\E" . . . the termcaps for all but 3 terminals in the
termcap supplied with v5,6 have "P4=\E\E".  One has "P4=\200",
another has "P4=\Esv", and the third has "P4=\E[29~".

I didn't bother to see what those 3 were, but I'd bet $0.00 to
your $100.00 that they're anachronisms, and anyone using today's
hardware and OS's would never encounter them.

Bob

PS - My SCO OSR6 /etc/termcap contains only four P4= sequences
     and they're all "P4=\E\E".

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