Hi there,
I am a (pretty) experienced Unix system administrator (we have a network
with more than 20 Sun SPARCstations and servers, 8 Sun/3s running XKernel,
14 NCD X terminals and a bunch of VT100-style ASCII terminals).
I am a very novice Oracle system administrator... (we're running Oracle
6.0.36 (or 6.0.something) with SQL*Forms30.
One of my most annoying problems we have right now is the way SQL*Forms
handles the keyboard mappings of all these different machines.
Right now things work OK on the VT100 (nothing special to tell to SQL*Forms,
it can detect the VT100) and on the SPARCstations that have a type 4
keyboard when the user is in OpenWindows and in a shelltool or cmdtool
(for this we say sqlforms30 -c sun:sun).
The problems are the following:
- SPARCs with type 5 keyboards;
- any SPARC when a xterm is used instead of a shell/cmdtool;
- the NCD Xterminals, whether in shell/cmdtools or xterms;
(most of our NCDs have the standard 101-key "PC" keyboard)
- our old Sun/3s with type 3 keyboards that run XKernel.
I could live without 2), and for 3), a partial solution with just the
shell/cmdtool OR xterm would be enough. 1) is getting very annoying
since my own machine is a Sun with a type 5 keyboard...
As for 4), I read in some doc that the "sun" resource should work with
both type 3 and type 4 keyboards; I have to try it from a shell/cmdtool
on those machines.
I found a the following files in $ORACLE_HOME/forms30/admin/resource:
xtermncd.r xtermncd.rO xtermsun.r xtermsun.rO
but I don't know what to do with them... I didn't find any mention of
them in the docs. I tried a few combinations like:
sqlforms -c xtermsun:xtermsun
but I always get error messages...
I found a reference to a "common interface" named something like "F12"
but it doesn't seem to be supported on Suns.
By the way, don't suggest we use olsqlforms; the version we have seems
pretty buggy...
I hope others that had the same problem can give me hints on a reliable
and elegant solution... Pointers to the (many volumes of) documentation
are welcome...
Just a final word about the fact that I know Oracle*term exists, but it
seems pretty complicated and I would rather use something that already
exists (if possible) instead of "reinventing the whell"...
Thank you very much.
Marc.
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{ Marc Mazuhelli | analyst in charge of computer labs }
