Re: TERM=ibm327x causes an error with setupterm

[Dr. Werner Fink]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 04:35:36PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 03:54:51PM +0100, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > on s390 the command tput and tset returning
> > 
> >    s390vsl065:~ # TERM=ibm327x tset
> >    tset: unknown terminal type ibm327x
> >    Terminal type? 
> > 
> > it works with TERM=dumb but the natural terminal type seems to
> > be ibm327x:
> 
> The entry is marked "gn" (generic).
> 
> tset uses setupterm, and the error message is consistent with the manpage
> description of setupterm:
> 
>       0 means that the terminal could not be found, or that it is a generic
>         type, having too little information for curses applications to run.

Hmm ... then I've to reconfigure agetty not to use ibm327x but dumb even if on
a 3270 or 3272 line.  Or the other solution could be to remove the gn even if
the line is a block input and not character input type.    This because it
makes no sense to warp every ncurses application like tput.

> >    s390vsl065:~ # infocmp -T ibm327x -1
> >    #       Reconstructed via infocmp from file: 
> > /usr/share/terminfo/i/ibm327x
> >    ibm327x|line mode IBM 3270 style,
> >            gn,
> >            clear=^M^J,
> >            el=^M,
> >            home=^M,
> >    s390vsl065:~ # infocmp -T dumb -1
> >    #       Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/terminfo/d/dumb
> >    dumb|80-column dumb tty,
> >            am,
> >            cols#80,
> >            bel=^G,
> >            cr=^M,
> >            cud1=^J,
> >            ind=^J,
> > 
> > how can I avoid this?

Werner

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