termcap and DISPLAY weirdness

From: John Santore (john_at_santore.com)
Date: 11/15/03 

Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:50:30 GMT

I'm on an AIX box running 4.3.3, ML9
Recently upgraded from 4.3.2

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.

If, however, from within that xterm, I telnet back to the
machine, both the function keys and the application lines
look and work just fine. Unfortunately, I need to spawn
various xview type windows so a straight telnet isn't a
sufficient solution. I've tried setting DISPLAY and
xhosting and the like, but upon setting DISPLAY, even the
telnet session app no longer works (both screen draw and
function keys)

Additional piece. If I telnet to the machine using a
non X windows emulator (CRT), lines and function keys
work ok. If, however, I set DISPLAY to a machine
with the Xwindows emulator, my lines and function keys
cease to work.

Any ideas?

                                    -John

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