I found that the linux console term works best for the arrows so I'm
trying to edit that, it has kbs=^? by default. Are you sure that the
kbs entry in terminfo is supposed to be ^$ because when I press the
backspace key it enters ^?, the delete key enters ^[[3~, and I tried
setting it to ^H and \b as well. All of these, except ^?, broke the bs
key at the TCL and none of them worked once inside a program.
I did find that using input @ instead of input makes the backspace key
work inside programs, apparently it reads the terminfo. The problem is
that persay creates everything using input, so I would need to go
through and change them all, which is a pain.

Hi pi3k,

For me the linux emulation was useless in kterm - didn't even display
spaces.

No - that was a typo.

Likely your best bet is to go with the commercial version which
includes tech support from the folks who wrote openQM.

HTH,
-Tom

Well it looks like accuterm 2k2, which everyone who accesses the
database will use, works fine. I guess I'll just have to keep one of my
konsoles set to vt420 when I edit it. Thanks for all your help and I
hope other people find this useful.

pi3k wrote:
Hope no one minds this waste of bandwidth but re-posting here for
future searches since this fixes the issues in this thread,

Hello All,

It appears that an official GPL release containing the full suite of
tape utilities might be a while in coming so I have posted a new
tarball of the openQM 2.2.0 release on my unofficial page:
http://www.blackflute.com/cdp/ openqm.html

The tape suite is now installed in the qmsys account so it doesn't have
to be downloaded and installed separately.

Also included:

A bug fix for the vexing Backspace in BASIC INPUT routine.

The default DOS path default has been replaced with a more appropriate
linux path.

Gentoo init support is now included tks to Jon Kristofferson and Dave
Walker

Simpler installation procedures for Debian, RH, YDL and Gentoo (y'all
using others are welcome to contribute).

A DEMO account pseudo tape is included. This account contains the files
from the openQM tutorial (Book Library) and is included to demonstrate
the ACCOUNT-RESTORE functionality as well as providing a non-qmsys
account for testing.

Please let me know if I mis-spelled anything or forgot anything, ;-)
-Tom

P.S. Thanks to the hard work of Dave Walker and Andy Pflueger we now
have working models of both Python and php4 wrappers for qmclient so
watch for modules for one or both of these languages soon!