Re: termcap and DISPLAY weirdness

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com)
Date: 11/16/03 

Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:32:10 -0500

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 02:48:26 GMT, John Santore
  <john@santore.com> wrote:
>
> I'm on an AIX box running 4.3.3, ML9
> Recently upgraded from 4.3.2. I don't think
> it's AIX specific, though.
>
> We've encountered the following error and I
> was wondering if anyone out there had any ideas.
>
> Using a X emulator (Kea.X), we can log into the
> machine and spawn an xterm. When we try to run
> a particular application we get the following
> problems:
> 1) TERM is set to vt220, however function keys
> and other vt220 specific issues aren't working
> 2) The application is basically a green screen
> type app, but it uses several solid line type
> characters. Unfortunately, within the xterm
> the border lines look like a's with umlauts and
> miniature 3s, and the formatting is all munged up.
>
That could be a locale problem. What is the value of LANG? 

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