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Andrew2006

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Re: dbaccess - return key does not work? - 12-28-2007 , 06:37 AM

On Dec 28, 2:25 am, "Sebastian, Norma J."
<NormaJean.Sebast... (AT) tellabs (DOT) com> wrote:

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Jack, Andrew,
Could there be an stty setting in the way? I know on solaris sometimes
my .profile (ksh) or .cshrc (csh) can have unexpected stty settings
(unexpected for me, but perhaps good for some application or someone).
An unexpected STTY setting can hose up my backspace key or my kill key
so I have to do a couple stty settings to get things "out of the way"
and then my normal key expectations start working.
Just a thought,
Norma Jean
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Norma Jean,

My stty settings are:
$ stty -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 49; columns 139; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
eol2 = <undef>; swtch = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z;
rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl
ixon -ixoff -iuclc ixany imaxbel -iutf8
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0
bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -
echoprt echoctl echoke

However, as the Return key does work with the other location of
dbaccess, it seems that the STTY settings must be correct?

Thanks for the suggestion

Andrew

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Re: dbaccess - return key does not work? - 12-28-2007 , 06:39 AM

On Dec 28, 7:04 am, "Jonathan Leffler" <jleffler.i... (AT) gmail (DOT) com>
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On Dec 27, 2007 3:24 AM, Andrew2006 <mymate... (AT) googlemail (DOT) com> wrote:

Can anyone recommend a tutorial for using dbaccess in menu mode?

When prompted to hit return, e.g. "Select a server with the Arrow
Keys, or enter a name, then press Return." I can move the cursor to
highlight the database but hitting return causes the cursor to move
forward to the next db. Manually entering the name and hitting return
will work though.

I am running it from a console in Ubuntu Linux.

I agree with the general consensus that the problem is most likely
related to terminal handling.

One option no-one else mentioned is setting INFORMIXTERM=terminfo and
then using
the terminfo entries instead of the termcap entries. You might then
need to set TERMINFO=/where/you/terminfo/files/are (but probably would
not).

This isn't necessarily a slam dunk - the Informix termcap file is a
weird and wonderful thing (but not necessarily updated very often -
I'd be mildly surprised if it had been updated in the current
millennium, but I might be doing people an injustice).

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Jonathon,

Tried setting INFORMIXTERM=terminfo, with and without TERMINFO=/usr/
share/terminfo/
Unfortunately no joy there.

Thanks

Andrew

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Andrew2006

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Re: dbaccess - return key does not work? - 12-28-2007 , 07:13 AM

A colleague found the problem in my .bashrc:

alias dbaccess='rlwrap dbaccess'

I use rlwrap when in non-menu mode as you can view your history of all
previous sql queries using the up and down arrows.

When I used the alternative version I was specifying the full path and
so not using my alias, hence it worked correctly.

Thankyou everyone for all the help.

Andrew

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Jack Parker

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RE: dbaccess - return key does not work? - 12-28-2007 , 08:13 AM

cool. who would of thunk it!

j.

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A colleague found the problem in my .bashrc:

alias dbaccess='rlwrap dbaccess'

I use rlwrap when in non-menu mode as you can view your history of all
previous sql queries using the up and down arrows.

When I used the alternative version I was specifying the full path and
so not using my alias, hence it worked correctly.

Thankyou everyone for all the help.

Andrew
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