Re: TERM=ibm327x causes an error with setupterm

[Thomas Dickey]

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.
> 
>    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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