Help! D320 on HPUX 10. returing PROTERMCAP error 70096 not recognized

[John Letarte]

Trying to restart (resuscitate) a former production D320 running HPUX10.20. Before shutdown it worked okay, but now when I try to start the application, it returns the error " Could not find terminal type 70096 in file /usr/4.0/symix/PROTERMCAP (146) Unable to use your terminal, check your PROTERMCAP file"

[cariteyp · Accepted solution]

Hi John,

Well, You use Progress.

Try :
You default TERM is 70096 and it isn't exist for Progress (no section in PROTERMCAP FILE).

export TERM=vt220
now you can start the application.

Bye.

[Luk Vandenbussche]

Hi,

Login to a telnet software (not on your console)

Change your TERM variable (vt220, wyse60)
export TERM=vt220

Start your progress session

[John Letarte]

vt220 is also not recognized. Unfortunately, I need to log into the console.

[Bill Hassell]

The number 70096 is the automatic terminal ID returned by HP terminals. so it is possible that something in Progress code has automatically ID'ed the terminal, or (worse), someone has hardcoded the TERM variable (never do that) in /etc/profile or .profile. Start by logging in and see what TERM is:

echo $TERM

If it says 70096, grep through your profiles to see if it was hardcoded:

grep 70096 /etc/profile $HOME/.profile

If you find something like: TERM=70096, replace that line with:

eval $(ttytype -s)

If you do not find the TETRM variable hardcoded, then your login profile probably has the ttytype command correctly setup and the terminal you are using is an HP 700/96 terminal (or an emulator with that code). Now comes the tricky part: The 700/96 is very old and should have been added to the PROTERMCAP file many years ago. Start with a call to your vendor to see if there is an update. If there is no update, you can chnage your terminal to use a VT emulation. Don't hardcode anything in your profile though. Just change the terminal emulation to EM100 (or the highest model allowed by your application. (I am assuming your console is an HP 700/9x terminal)