Hi, I thought I'd start a new thread to ask these questions.



I use a PC to access our Solaris box which has Ingres installed.



What's the best terminal emulation software to use? Is there any
decent free software?



What are the best TERM_INFO settings to sensibly map the PC's keyboard
into something usable in the ingres character based visual tools?



I'm sure I've seen ISQL in colour when I was on a course at CA a few
years back, how was this achieved?



Your opinions please!



Cheers,



Michael

"M.Cressey" <M.Cressey@open.ac.uk> writes:
>I use a PC to access our Solaris box which has Ingres installed.
>What's the best terminal emulation software to use? Is there any
>decent free software?
I use putty (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty) for
most of my outgoing windows connections.

Once that's made, I tunnel X11/VNC back over the ssh link.

>What are the best TERM_INFO settings to sensibly map the PC's keyboard
>into something usable in the ingres character based visual tools?

My TERM_INGRES is set to vt100fx.... i usually have few problems
running various stock ingres term applications... but i only use a few
of them regularly. The most annoying thing is on notebook keyboards
which do not have a true keypad. The ESC-OP trick is handy though.

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> "M.Cressey" <M.Cressey@open.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi, I thought I'd start a new thread to ask these questions.
>
> I use a PC to access our Solaris box which has Ingres installed.
>
> What's the best terminal emulation software to use? Is there any
> decent free software?

Lots of folk have suggested some free emulations, but if you are willing to
spend money then the best (and most faithful) VTxxx emulation is KEA!420
from Attachmate.

It's a good soul-mate for Ingres; it was always far-and-away the best
product of its kind, but it lost market-share (and mind-share) to the more
heavily promoted Reflection in the early 90s, for no obvious reason. (Maybe
it was just because the earlier DOS version had a completely unpronounceable
name: ZSTEMpc-220!)

However, I don't see why you'd want to bother with terminal emulation at all
if you just want to talk to Ingres on the Sun box. Just download r3, create
a vnode, and use the Ingres tools locally on the PC. And if you don't like
the colour scheme or the key mapping (and who could?), then ten minutes
alone with the termcap file and the map file will be enough to make it see
sense.

Roy