help needed with CDE
Michael I. Schwartz
Problems like this are usually caused by not having the terminal type set
correctly.
The application you are running is not 'CDE' per se, but a terminal emulator
running under the CDE desktop manager. I'm guessing it may be dtterm (or it
could be xterm or much worse cmdtool or shelltool).
You may experiment with the terminal type at the remote system by typing
set term=dtterm
or
set term=xterm
or
set term=vt100
One of these (assuming a csh) will start the clear command working again.
Once you've determined what terminal type works, you can add a command to your
login script to ask (under appropriate circumstances) about your terminal type
or just set it outright.
Hope this helps
Michael
In article <93602872...@super.ccp.com>,
arthur wouk <aw...@blackhole.nyx.net> wrote:
>i am a retired, home hobbyist.
>
>i have recently moved up from a sparc2, where i used only the console
>login, to a sparc10, running CDE. (solaris in both cases, 2.5.1 on the
>10.) i have the sparc10 running quite well at home. however i am
>having problems when i dial in via kermit to either my ISP or to nyx.
>
>so long as i stay with direct actions, what i see in my CDE box is
>perfectly normal 24 rows, 80 column text, scrolling properly. however,
>if i invoke any secondary program on the remote machine, such as more
>(less), vi, mail, news, lynx, i run into trouble.
>
>the clear screen function before the new material is displayed doesn't
>work. i get the new material superimposed over the old material. ^L
>doesn't work to rectify the problem. essentially, those programs are
>useless to me.
>
>anyone have any ideas as to how to fix this? for completeness - i am
>running ksh on all machines, my ISP runs solaris, nyx runs sunos
>(still i believe). performance is identical at both rmeote locations.
>
>i still use the sparc2 in console mode for most remote activities.
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>
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Paul Gilmartin
> The application you are running is not 'CDE' per se, but a terminal emulator
> running under the CDE desktop manager. I'm guessing it may be dtterm (or it
> could be xterm or much worse cmdtool or shelltool).
> You may experiment with the terminal type at the remote system by typing
> set term=dtterm
Does Nyx have a termcap entry for dtterm? I fail to find one in either
/etc/termcap or in /usr/share/lib/terminfo. Does SunOS 4 understand
terminfo in the first place?
-- gil
Steven Buehrle
> and there is no dtterm on sunos, nor on solaris (where i tried to find
> it). maybe dt_term? could not find that either, though i have a
> .dt_profile in my home directory. vt100 didn't work quite right
> either, though it wasn't too bad.
Dtterm is in /usr/dt/bin/