Object COBOL User Guide

Table of Contents

Index

Chapter 15: Terminfo Database and Terminal Devices

• 15.1 Overview
  • 15.1.1 Terminals and the Terminfo Database
    • 15.1.1.1 System Terminfo
    • 15.1.1.2 Portable Terminfo for COBOL
    • 15.1.1.3 COBOL Screen Handling Requirements
    • 15.1.1.4 Special Terminal Facilities
• 15.2 Operation
  • 15.2.1 Searching Portable and System Terminfo Databases
  • 15.2.2 Terminal Devices
    • 15.2.2.1 Screen Handling Requirements
    • 15.2.2.2 Essential Entries
    • 15.2.2.3 Optional Entries
      • 15.2.2.3.1 Highlighting
      • 15.2.2.3.2 Performance Considerations
      • 15.2.2.3.3 Wide Terminal Mode
      • 15.2.2.3.4 Printer Support
      • 15.2.2.3.5 Line Drawing
      • 15.2.2.3.6 Color
  • 15.2.3 Special Terminal Facilities
    • 15.2.3.1 Wyse Terminal Support
    • 15.2.3.2 Control and Alt Key Support
    • 15.2.3.3 Wide Terminal Mode
    • 15.2.3.4 Controlling Terminal Printers
      • 15.2.3.4.1 Putting the Printer On-line
      • 15.2.3.4.2 Printing a Screen
      • 15.2.3.4.3 Printing a String of Characters
      • 15.2.3.4.4 Points to Note
      • 15.2.3.4.5 Terminfo Requirements
  • 15.2.4 The Portable Terminfo Utilities mftic and mfinfocmp
  • 15.2.5 Terminfo Compiler (mftic)
    • 15.2.5.1 Invoking mftic
  • 15.2.6 Terminfo Lister (mfinfocmp)
    • 15.2.6.1 Invoking mfinfocmp
    • 15.2.6.2 Search Sequence
  • 15.2.7 Converting terminfo Using termconv
    • 15.2.7.1 Invoking termconv
  • 15.2.8 Description
    • 15.2.8.1 Example of Using termconv