On Dec 27, 10:09*pm, "Jack Parker" <jack.park...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Norma Jean already answered the other part, her suggestion for vt100 is also
> a good one (I always try wyse-50 and ansi as well). *Sounds also as though
> you have isolated the issue as something else, which is intriguing. *I look
> forward to hearing the version numbers in question and other's thoughts.
>
> The 0000000 is the octal address from od, the \n is what your enter key sent
> and the 000a is the octal representation of the string. *So \n (linefeed) is
> the value you would be looking for.
>
> I was too lazy to look up the proper code for you before (actually I did,
> but did not believe that @8 was actually it, so I didn't boot my linux box
> to check - I have done so now and find the $INFORMIXDIR/etc/termcap entry
> there contains an xterm entry (below) - which does in fact have an entry for
> @8. *(@8=\EOM or Escape O M). *Typing that manually I do not get a \n in the
> resulting file. *I too am using ssh, but from cygwin, I am using ansi for my
> TERM. *Mine also produces \n for both Enter keys.
>
> Looking at termcap, @8 is not typically spelled out, which would indicate
> that most terminals produce the same value, which I would actually expect to
> be \r (Carriage Return). *I must have something wrong somewhere - K and
> returns have always been an issue between me and termcap. *Mucking about
> with @8, I get no results from changing it (or nl for that matter). *I do
> get expected results from swapping kd and ku - so it is using my termcap.
> Hmm, playing around with all of them (nw, nl, cr, @8) none of them have
> effect - must be something magical about the return key that I am missing.
> Anyone?
>
> j.
>
> xterm|vs100|xterm terminal emulator:\
> * * * * :am:km:mi:ms:xn:bst:\
> * * * * :co#80:it#8:li#65:\
> * * * * :@8=\EOM:AL=\E[%dLC=\E[%dPL=\E[%dMO=\E[%dB:\
> * * * * :IC=\E[%d@:K1=\EOq:K2=\EOr:K3=\EOs:K4=\EOp:K5=\EOn:\
> * * * * :LE=\E[%dD:RI=\E[%dC:UP=\E[%dA:\
> * * * * :ac=``aaffggjjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{|| }}~~:\
> * * * * :ae=^O:al=\E[L:as=^N:bl=^G:cb=3\E[1K:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:\
> * * * * :cl=\E[H\E[2J:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:cr=\r:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:\
> * * * * :ct=\E[3g:dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:do=\n:eA=\E(B\E)0:ho=\E[H:\
> * * * * :ic=\E[@:k0=\EOy:k1=\EOP:k2=\EOQ:k3=\EOR:k4=\EOS:\
> * * * * :k5=\EOt:k6=\EOu:k7=\EOv:k8=\EOl:k9=\EOw:k;=\EOx:\
> * * * * :kb=\b:kd=\EOB:ke=\E[?1l:kl=\EOD:kr=\EOC:ks=\E[?1h:\
> * * * * :ku=\EOA:le=\b:mb=@:md=\E[1m:me=\E[m:mr=\E[7m:nd=\E[C:\
> * * * * :r1=\E>\E[1;3;4;5;6l\E[?7h\E[m\E[r\E[2J\E[H:\
> * * * * :r2=@kf1=\EOP:rc=\E8:\
> * * * * :.sa=!!! MUST CHANGE BY HAND
> !!!\E[0%?%p1%p6%|%t;1%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p1%p3%|%t;7%;%?%p4% t;5%;m%?%p9%t^N%e^O %
> ;:\
> * * * * :sc=\E7:se=\E[m:sf=\n:so=\E[7m:sr=\EM:st=\EH:ta=\t:\
> * * * * :up=\E[A:
>
> DB-Access Version 10.00.UC5I1. *The return key works fine.
>
> Jack,
>
> This is the result of testing what ssh is sending as "Return":
> $ od -cx junk
> 0000000 *\n *\0
> * * * * 000a
> 0000001
>
> I created a termcap in my home directory and pointed the environment
> variable TERMCAP at this.
>
> This contains the following termcap snippet from the iuug site:
> <termcap>
> vs|xterm|vs100|xterm terminal emulator (X window system):\
> * * * * :cr=^M:do=^J:nl=^J:bl=^G:le=^H:ho=\E[H:\
> * * * * :co#80:li#65:cl=\E[H\E[2J:bs:am:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=\E[C:up=\E[A:
> \
> * * * * :ce=\E[K:cd=\E[J:so=\E[7m:se=\E[m:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[m:\
> * * * * :md=\E[1m:mr=\E[7m:me=\E[m:\
> * * * * :ku=\E[A:kd=\E[B:kr=\E[C:kl=\E[D:kb=^H:\
> * * * * :k0=\E[11~:k1=\E[12~:k2=\E[13~:k3=\E[14~:k4=\E[15~:\
> * * * * :k5=\E[17~:k6=\E[18~:k7=\E[19~:k8=\E[20~:k9=\E[21~:\
> * * * * :kf=\E[6~:kg=\E[5~:\
> * * * * :kY=\E[216z:kZ=\E[222z:\
> * * * * :ta=^It:sf=\n:sr=\EM:\
> * * * * :al=\E[L:dl=\E[M:ic=\E[@:dc=\E[P:\
> * * * * :MT:ke=\E[?1l\E>:\
> * * * * :is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l:\
> * * * * :rs=\E[r\E<\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l:xn:\
> * * * * :AL=\E[%dLL=\E[%dM:IC=\E[%d@C=\E[%dP:\
> * * * * :ti=\E7\E[?47h\E(B\E)0:te=\E[2J\E[?47l\E8:\
> * * * * :hs:ts=\E[?E\E[?%i%dT:fs=\E[?F:es:ds=\E[?E:\
> * * * * :gs=^n:ge=^o:gb=lmkjqx:
> </termcap>
>
> I tried the following replacements for the "nl=^J" entry:
> - "nl=\n"
> - "nl=\0"
> - "nl=000a"
>
> reloading dbaccess each time. None of them changed how the Enter key
> works.
>
> Have just noticed another version of Informix on the dbaccess box in a
> directory called: informix_10.0UC5
> If I run dbaccess from here then the Return key works as expected. /
> informix_10.0UC5/etc/termcap is identical to /informix/etc/termcap.
> The bug must therefore be in the version of dbaccess inside /informix/
> bin/.
> Is there a command you can run to find the version of dbaccess you're
> using?
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Jack,

The version numbers of the two dbaccess programs is the same. Also the
md5sum of the binaries are the same. I've also checked that one is not
a symlink to the other. Will look into this more tomorrow...

Many thanks for all the time you've put in to this!

Andrew