Pico Editor Installation Need Help

[CaseyDearcorn]

I am very new dealing with unix and installs of software on unix. We just moved to an HP-UX 11.23 OS and i am trying to get the pico editor installed for it. I am not even sure if i found the right one. When i did get it installed i got errors that said something about not understanding what VT100 was, so i set the term. I eventually deleted everything and I am starting over. Can anyone help in this issue. I would greatly appreciate it.
Casey

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Casey,

Its important to know where you got the software and if it is designed for HP-UX.

If its a tarball meant to compile:
tar xvf tarball.tar
cd
follow the compile instructions inside.

If its a depot file

say pico.depot
cd to the directory it is in.

swinstall -s $PWD/pico.depot \*

The actual problem here is a variable called TERM.

export TERM=vt100

Use the program.

SEP

[CaseyDearcorn]

I have set the term to vt100 for the telnet application i am using, i exported it with no errors, but when i run pico i get Unknown terminal type vt100!

We also have an application datatel that uses this but its under a wyse50 terminal setup. I attempted to do the same in there, but i also get Unknown terminal type wyse50!

Casey

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom again Casey,

Sounds like an application issue. Perhaps pico needs to be configured to work properly with the terminal environment.

Or perhaps worse, its not designed to run on HP-UX at all, or on 11.23.

Did it run on another version of HP-UX? If so, what version?

Is this version certified for 11.23?

SEP

[CaseyDearcorn]

Here is the website i downloaded it from. Maybe I cant use this one?

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/Mail/pine-4.64/

The one for the Itanium 11.23

From everything i read pico comes in pine and you need to download pine to get pico editor, not sure if this is always the case.

Casey