Termcap problems with 'screen'

[bgawert]

I'm running 11i v1.6 (B.11.22) on a HP i2000 Itanium system. Since I needed
virtual consoles I downloaded the precompiled freeware utility "screen" from
the HP-UX Porting Center and installed it. As far as good but now when I
want to start screen on the local console (VGA, textmode only on i2000s) I
get the following error:

#screen
Cannot find terminfo entry for ´ITE_x80y24´.
#

I also logged in in a vt100 telnet session and tried to run screen but also
got the above failure:

#screen
Cannot find terminfo entry for ´vt100´.
#

The entries for ITE_x80y24 and vt100 are in "/usr/lib/terminfo/I/ITE_x80y24"
and "/usr/lib/terminfo/v/vt100", and the environment variables TERM and
_TERM are also set to the correct values. Other text mode programs incl. SAM
work fine, only screen refuses to work.

Anyone knows how to fix that?

[Bruno Ganino]

Try to verify output with tput command
http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/tput.1.asp
Bruno

[Bruno Ganino]

look also
http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man5/terminfo.5.asp
HTH
Bruno

[bgawert]

Thanks, but that doesn't help me much. The entry in terminfo is correct, and as I said other programs using terminfo are working perfectly. Only "screen" refuses to work and seems to be unable to read the terminfo database correctly.

Benjamin

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Have you tried "tsm". it is in /usr/bin.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[bgawert]

Yes, I tried TSM. From the local console it says it cannot open ITE_x80y25.fi. When I change TERM to "hp" it works, but screen does not.

From a telnet session with vt100 emulation TSM also works, but screen doesn't.

TSM is good but unlike screen it can't disconnect/reconnect to running sessions and that's what I need.

Benjamin

[Bruno Ganino]

If you press l (Control key and l ) it will refresh the screen. Try.... what do it ?