Re: Oracle*Terminal & key map for Oracle

    Small clarifications,...

In article <kpalm.707504241_at_athena> kpalm_at_athena.qualcomm.com (Kent Palm) writes:
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] 1) Under unix, the oraterm program uses the unix environment variable TERM
] or term, to understand which keyboard you're using. It does not use a
] oraterm.r file (as far as I can tell). So, try setting term to something
] like "vt100".

    The terminal resource SQL*Forms (or SQL*Menu or Oracle*Terminal,...) uses is really a combination of terminal name and filename. The default for the former is a terminal name from the OS, if it can be found (in UNIX, it's the TERM variable), or "default", if it can't be found; for the second it's "oraterm.r" (modulo your machine's filenaming conventions).

    The file is found on UNIX by hunting down a shell-style path variable (of the form "directory(:directory...)"), named FORMS30PATH in SQL*Forms, or MENU50PATH in SQL*Menu. On VMS, it's in the directory referenced by the ORA_(FORMS30/MENU50)_PATH logical. (On another machine,...check the readme.)

    Read the readme file (if one is shipped for your platform), and the Oracle*Terminal manual.

] 2) You need to have write permission to the .r file in order to access it.
] Oraterm will not allow read only access.

    Since Oracle*Terminal may write the resources back into the file, it will need write access.

    Random hints for improving performance simply:

• Remove all unused terminals from oraterm.r. If you actually don't use any of the terminals in oraterm.r, just rename the resource file for the most popular terminal you have.
• Remove any products you don't own. oraterm.r is often shipped with the SQLMENU product definitions; if you don't own SQL*Menu, you can remove this one. You can keep a separate resource file with *just* the ORATERM definition, and remove that one from the general-use copy.

    NOTE! Since these are destructive, make a copy of the original first! You never know when you'll actually get, say, SQL*Menu or a Spudmatic terminal.

    Regarding posting terminal resources: don't! Those things are HUGE! Much better to set up an anonymous ftp, or email them to the ones who actually want them.

• Bill K.

Bill Kaufman, | "People look better under arrest,...it gives you wkaufman_at_us.oracle.com | an aggressive fashion look." -- John Waters Received on Fri Jun 05 1992 - 06:53:55 CEST