As near as I can tell, the RealWorld 8 copyright notices initially begin
by issuing hard-coded 8 bit line draw characters from the PC character set.
Of course, if you launch xterm with a PC character set it messes up your
acsc graphics characters.
The following is a terminfo file munged to work with an xterm that
has been launched with an ibm font, for instance:
xterm -fnibm8x14 -fg black -bg white
Someone else can probably tell you how to make that the default
character set if necessary.
1) Place the following in the file /tmp/rwxterm.ti
2) TERMINFO={RealWorldPath}/terminfo export TERMINFO
3) tic -v /tmp/rwxterm.ti
4) unset TERMINFO
-- cut here - /tmp/rwxterm.ti --
# Microlite ReqlWord 8 terminfo file - needs ibm font
# example: xterm -fn ibm8x14 -fg black -fg white
xterm|xterm terminal emulator - rw8 - ibm font,
am, km, mir, msgr, xenl, xon,
cols#80, lines#24,
acsc=k\277l\332m\300j\331n\305w\302q\304u\264t\303v\301x\263,
bel=^G, bold=\E[1m, clear=\E[H\E[2J, cr=\r,
csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr, cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=\E[D,
cud=\E[%p1%dB, cud1=\n, cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C,
cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cuu=\E[%p1%dA, cuu1=\E[A,
dch=\E[%p1%dP, dch1=\E[P, dl=\E[%p1%dM, dl1=\E[M,
ed=\E[J, el=\E[K, home=\E[H, ht=\t, hts=\EH,
ich=\E[%p1%d@, ich1=\E[@, il=\E[%p1%dL, il1=\E[L,
ind=\n, is2=\E7\E[r\E[m\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l\E8\E>,
kLFT=\E[d, kRIT=\E[c, kbs=\b, kcbt=\E[Z, kcub1=\E[D,
kcud1=\E[B, kcuf1=\E[C, kcuu1=\E[A, kend=\E[7~,
kf1=\E[11~, kf10=\E[21~, kf11=\E[25~, kf12=\E[26~,
kf13=\E[28~, kf14=\E[29~, kf15=\E[31~, kf16=\E[32~,
kf17=\E[33~, kf18=\E[34~, kf2=\E[12~, kf3=\E[13~,
kf4=\E[14~, kf5=\E[15~, kf53=\E[5~, kf54=\E[6~,
kf6=\E[17~, kf7=\E[18~, kf8=\E[19~, kf9=\E[20~,
khome=\E[8~, kich1=\E[2~, rc=\E8, rev=\E[7m, ri=\EM,
rmcup=\E[2J\E[?47l\E8, rmso=\E[m, rmul=\E[m,
rs1=\E>\E[1;3;4;5;6l\E[?7h\E[m\E[r\E[2J\E[H,
rs2=\E>\E[?3l\E[?4l\E[?5l\E[?7h\E[?8h, sc=\E7,
sgr0=\E[m, smcup=\E7\E[?47h, smso=\E[7m, smul=\E[4m,
tbc=\E[3g,
-- cut here - /tmp/rwxterm.ti --
Note. The key definitions are based on xterm being launched on an
SCO OpenServer 5 system. They cover unshifted and shifted, but
not control-shifted characters, since they are not defined in xterms.
Tom
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: I just spent some time at a client, trying to get their new Version 8 of
: RealWorld to work on their X terminals.
:
: The old Version 6 they had before worked just fine.
:
: However, with Version 8, it no longer uses the RWCONFIG.xxx files; rather, it
: uses the `terminfo' database.
:
: Moving from their old RWCONFIG.xtermc file to the new 'ansi' terminfo type had
: two major bad effects.
:
: First, Version 8 always displayed everything in BOLD characters. This was
: annoying and hard to read for long periods of time. I fixed this by simply
: eliminating the `bold=' string from the terminal entry.
:
: Second (the hard part) was this: They need to display the line graphics for
: menus and windows as using the `+', `-', and '|' characters, because most of
: their xterms can't handle line draw characters. (This worked in Version 6)
:
: However, try as I might, I could not make RealWorld version 8 use these
: characters. In their terminfo, I constructed a special `ansirwc' terminal
: type, and for the 'acsc=' entry, I placed the `+', '-' and '|' characters in
: the right spots. (I also disabled the sequences for starting and ending
: graphics character mode.) The thing still insisted upon spitting out
: graphics characters, which looks like s**t on most of their xterms. How it
: now knew HOW to do this is beyond me, since all information about how to
: generate graphics characters was no longer in the terminfo entry.
:
: HOWEVER, I discovered a couple of things which indicated that PERHAPS
: RealWorld isn't getting all its information strictly from `terminfo'.
:
: 1. At the main menu, I arrowed all the way over to the left-most drop-down
: menu, which I believe was `AR'. I then pressed Escape, which caused the
: little "Press <Esc> to EXIT" prompt to appear.: This prompt partially covered
: up the lower left corner of the drop-down menu. THEN, I pressed 'Enter',
: which caused the prompt to go away. LO AND BEHOLD, the part of the menu that
: was under the prompt was repainted, but WITH '+', '-' and '|'
: characters!!!!!!
:
: 2. At the top of the menu, the active menu heading (e.g., 'AR', 'P/O', etc.)
: was surrounded by vertical bars, whereas with the standard `ansi' terminal
: type, it was a graphics vertical line character.
:
: SO WHAT GIVES??? Any ideas out there???
:
: Thanks.
:
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