On Sat, 2 May 2020 12:02:56 -0600, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > >> But z/OS used to deny login when TERM was not in terminfo. >> Did it ever get better? > >If it denies login to that term setting, you try something else :) > Yah, but I wished it had presumed something minimal such as TTY33 until I could EXPORT TERM and/or set TERMINFO. Catch-22: can't login without correct TERMINFO; can't set TERMINFO without logging in.
And I once had an esoteric terminal for which the developer supplied a .terminfo source file. With octal escape sequences. I compiled it with /bin/tic. Guess why it didn't work. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
