AIX

Judging from the "stty" values I don't think that AIX is even recognising that this is is is a VDU. The settings are more like a wide-carriage printer/terminal.

Have you considered getting a compatible terminal emulator?
Whether anything free on the Windows distribution will help will depend on the Windows version and whether you need a secure version.

Sometimes posible change CR, try. sometimes it's call "send CR"
Sometimes ENTER and ENTER near numeric is not the same.

Sometimes you can change name for your terminal to another name for me can be QVT
1. If can create your name:
- create new terminal QVT in terminfo (or termcap) by copy vt100 and modificate one (I not remember) of "lf", "cr" or "nel".
compile terminfo

2. if can't create your name:
- change one terminal in terminfo (or termcap) can for vt100 by change one of "lf", "cr" or "nel" and have hope nobody wants login as vt100.

I think this is exactly what I needed. I'll have a play and get back...

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I've found some documentation on the termcap file and I think that I can sort out my problem that way but the termcap file isn't compiling with the "tic" command. It just gives me the following and hangs without actually updating any of the terminfo files:

Code:

# tic -v7
Working in /usr/share/lib/terminfo
Hash table complete
264 collisions out of 531 entries

Any suggestions?

Edit: Ignore that for a moment...I may have been a bit dumb. It seems I may need to specify where the termcap file is.

I may be wrong but I believe that you need to know how the terminal emulator identifies itself when sent a "what are you" enquiry. This is because your original problem is before login.

This interesting termcap file may help or confuse. It does mention assorted obsolete Qume terminals including a both QVT VDUs and amazingly a Qume daisy wheel printer terminal.

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1998...g00364/termcap

It seems to me that terminfo is more often used than termcap.
Lately it's true for all OS. AIX and application on it always prefer terminfo.

ONLY ONE THING MUST DO:
QVT/Term->DefaultSettings->Display->Newline can use CRLF/LF/CR
It's all.

Yes, I've tried all three of those settings. It's currently on "LF", but that doesn't stop it from sending a "CR" character as well!

We do have a termcap file so I've assumed that's what I should be working from, but I notice that the information in there doesn't match the compiled data in /usr/share/lib/terminfo/*. Is there another source file somewhere?

The most obvious solution is, as suggested, use a better terminal emulator, but the customer is refusing that one.