The type of terminal is unknown to the system

Dear Sir,

I have been struggling compiling and executing i4gl programs.

We are currently running SCO OpenServer 5.5 and Informix 7.20 UD7
which we have been planning to migrate to SCO OpenServer 6.0.0 and
Informix 7.32 UC2. The programs that run fairly well on the older
platform can no longer run on the new platform. What I did try to
establish was, for this simple program, why does it crush and fails to
display the windows ?

I have set the PATH to the following:

PATH=/osr5/bin:/osr5/usr/ccs/bin:/osr5/usr/bin:/osr5/usr/include/osr5/
usr/lib:$INFORMIXDIR/bin:$PATH;export PATH

main
OPEN WINDOW win_print
AT 5,2
WITH 18 ROWS, 77 COLUMNS
ATTRIBUTE (BORDER, PROMPT LINE LAST)
DISPLAY "HELLO WORLD" AT 10, 10
SLEEP 10
CLEAR WINDOW win_print
----DISPLAY "HELOO WORLD" AT 1,1
----SLEEP 10
END MAIN

Similarly, I tried to copy, some programs and forms in the demo
directory of Informix but, this still this does not seem to work.

I have included the following also:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$INFORMIXDIR/lib/tools:$INFORMIXDIR/lib:$INFORMIXDIR/
lib/esql
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

I suspect it could be with a windows problem but I don't know which
library I am missing.

I have run into such hitch again. I logged on as root and set
ROWs=44;export ROWS and COLUMNS=127;export COLUMNS, now I can't
execute ISQL & I4gl it is coming up with:

The type of terminal is unknown to the system

How can I make the linking hold ? Or what is the likely cause to this
problem ?


I need your help.


Thanking you in advance.



Felix Mwango Mutale

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008, [email]fmutale02@yahoo.com[/email] wrote:[color=blue]
>Dear Sir,
>
>I have been struggling compiling and executing i4gl programs.
>
>We are currently running SCO OpenServer 5.5 and Informix 7.20 UD7
>which we have been planning to migrate to SCO OpenServer 6.0.0 and
>Informix 7.32 UC2. The programs that run fairly well on the older
>platform can no longer run on the new platform. What I did try to
>establish was, for this simple program, why does it crush and fails to
>display the windows ?[/color]

First off, I would highly recommend migrating to a platform other
than OSR 6 (see thread on lack of gcc for OSR 6 amongst others).
Personally I would run on whatever version of Linux that Informix
is happiest about.

Second, Informix has always had problems dealing with the TERM
environment variable set to something it doesn't understand (e.g.
it's not in the TERMCAP file). I first ran into this over 20
years ago, and was totally unimpressed with a so-called
professional package that dumped core with no meaningful message
instead of producing an error message saying it could not find
the TERM variable. From what I have heard fairly recently, it
doesn't appear that they have fixed it after 20 years.

You need to set this either in your .profile or perhaps in a
warpper script that starts informix with something like this
using a terminal type that Informix likes:

TERM=vt102
export TERM

Bill
--
INTERNET: [email]bill@celestial.com[/email] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC
URL: [url]http://www.celestial.com/[/url] PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way
Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820
Fax: (206) 232-9186

Breathe fire, slay dragons, and take chances. Failure is temporary, regret
is eternal.

On 9 Oct, 13:24, fmutal...@yahoo.com wrote:[color=blue]
> Dear Sir,
>
> I have been struggling compiling and executing i4gl programs.
>
> We are currently running SCO OpenServer 5.5 and Informix 7.20 UD7
> which we have been planning to migrate to SCO OpenServer 6.0.0 and
> Informix 7.32 UC2. The programs that run fairly well on the older
> platform can no longer run on the new platform. What I did try to
> establish was, for this simple program, why does it crush and fails to
> display the windows ?[/color]

Good Morning Felix,

For details on how to install and configure Informix 7 on OpenServer 6
please see:

[url]http://www.sco.com/ta/127003[/url]

For details on how to the Informix 7.2 4GL on OpenServer 6 please see:

[url]http://www.sco.com/ta/127000[/url]

If you need further assistance migrating your OpenServer 5 system to
OpenServer
6 then you can email the [email]osr5to6@sco.com[/email] alias for assistance.

Regards,

JOhn

[email]bonixsas@gmail.com[/email] wrote:[color=blue]
> On 9 Oct, 13:24, fmutal...@yahoo.com wrote:[color=green]
>> Dear Sir,
>>
>> I have been struggling compiling and executing i4gl programs.
>>
>> We are currently running SCO OpenServer 5.5 and Informix 7.20 UD7
>> which we have been planning to migrate to SCO OpenServer 6.0.0 and
>> Informix 7.32 UC2. The programs that run fairly well on the older
>> platform can no longer run on the new platform. What I did try to
>> establish was, for this simple program, why does it crush and fails to
>> display the windows ?[/color]
>
> Good Morning Felix,
>
> For details on how to install and configure Informix 7 on OpenServer 6
> please see:
>
> [url]http://www.sco.com/ta/127003[/url]
>
> For details on how to the Informix 7.2 4GL on OpenServer 6 please see:
>
> [url]http://www.sco.com/ta/127000[/url][/color]

I think that should be [url]http://www.sco.com/ta/127100[/url]




--
RGB