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From: skilby@ucqais.uc.edu (Steven Kilby)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Oracle Forms & Wyse50/Vt100
Keywords: ORACLE, Forms
Message-ID: <2321@ucqais.uc.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 90 09:51:54 GMT
References: <361@cmsfl> <468@usperb.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Organization: Univ of Cincinnati, College of Business Admin.
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> For the most part, the thing that prevents you from developing a form
> on one type of terminal, and running it on another is the use of a
> terminal's line drawing capabilities (ie: SQL*Forms Draw Box function).
> For some unknown reason, the code that Forms generates (*.frm) is
> hardware specific when it comes to sending line drawing characters to
> the crt. My advice is to not use the Draw Box function, but to type in
> your own boxes and lines using + - | as normal text.

In my understanding and experience, you can develope a form on any type
terminal and then use it on any other terminal.  As long as the the 
given terminals are defined and have *.crt files.  I have developed several
fomrs on both AT&T 610's and DEC VT340's and then run them on a ADDS
Viewpoint.  The Viewpoint is made by NCR and has no graphics character set.
As Mr. Greenlaw, a staff engineer at Oracle, has stated in a previous
article, there is software included with oracle to define almost any
terminal.  If used properly, the software will generate boxes with 
appropriate graphic characters or use -,|,+ for terminals that do not support
a graphic character set.  This is fully documented in the DBA manual and
in the Installation manual.


                                           Steven Kilby   skilby@ucqais.uc.edu
                                           Oracle DBA
                                           University of Cincinnati
                                           College of Business Administration