Re: OT: Using a vt100 terminal??

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:

> I have a user that is trying to get the g4l project running on a hardware
> system which only has a vt100 (or maybe a vt102) terminal connected.
>
> The thread of the message is at this address.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/forums/forum/408763/topic/4364277
>
> I don't have access to a vt100 or similar terminal, so don't have a way
> to test it directly. With what we have tried, it seems to get it to come
> up with the terminal prompt, but then fails to run the script that uses
> dialog as its gui?
>
> The latest thing I asked him to do, was try a simple dialog option, and
> this is what it did.
>
> bash-4.1# dialog --msgbox "test" 0 0
> Error opening terminal: vt100.
> -bash-4.1#
>
> I'm thinking it is something simple we have missed, or that it is
> something that does work, or needs more info.

most likely: the TERMINFO environment variable is mis-set, or else the
machine has no terminfo database at all.  (bash is a termcap application,
and could be using just the termcap library).

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