FilePro from Linux xterm or other terminal?

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010, John Esak wrote:
>I don't have a lot of time right now... I'm going to Washington, DC for the
>bigt gathering on Saturday and the meeting at the Kennedy Center tomorrow
>night. So, if I get a chance I'll look further on this... But immediately
>I'm pretty sure about the LY thing. The LY is just the label for BREAK or
>Ctl-C.  Unfortunately, there is no PY entry to simply change the Break key
>to something different. But I'm sure you know this... You need to just
>change the stty setting for INTR.... But are you saying the LY does not
>reflect whatever string you put in it?

Exactly.  Ctrl-C does the trick, but ``DEL'' is what's displayed.

What I can't figure out is that I think it displays Ctrl-C when
using the default FP termcap, but not when it's using mine.  My
previous post showed only the differences between the termcap
values to make it easy to see what's changed.

Back in the day, FilePro would search two termcaps, /etc/termcap,
or the file in the TERMCAP environment variable, then the
appl/fp/termcap file.  This was to get around the 1024 character
limitation on the termcap entries for a particular terminal.  I
think it merged the two, generally getting the key codes, cursor
control, etc. from the first, and the FP specific P? and L? codes
were define in the fp/termcap file.

It's been a long time (25+ years) since I was looking seriously
at the C termcap routines when I wrote my replacements for the
Unify RDBMS screen handling routines.  My termcap comparison
script is written in python so doesn't have any length
limitations.

It would be Really Nice(tm) if somebody from FPTech would chime
in on this as I would think it would be in their interest to get
a working termcap for xterms in Linux, OS X, and other *nix
systems.  Not everybody runs Windows and Anzio (sorry Bob :-).

Bill
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