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Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

Title:DEC Rdb against the World
Moderator:HERON::GODFRIND
Created:Fri Jun 12 1987
Last Modified:Thu Feb 23 1995
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1348
Total number of notes:5438

352.0. "Keys problem with Oracle" by WELSWS::GIBSON (Alan Gibson @WLO) Wed May 17 1989 19:29

Note posted to VIA_FORUM, RDB_VMS_COMPETITION and RALLY_COMPETITION.

Has anyone seen this before?  Anyone got any ideas of how to fix it?
Any better conferences?

The customer has Oracle on VMS.  When they press and hold a key, like 
right-arrow, the correct character is sent for a while, but then 
occaisionally something different, like "d" or "o".  The naff characters 
are put into the Oracle buffer.

We are trying to eliminate from our enquiries some foreign hardare that sits 
between the terminals and terminal servers.  The problem has only appeared 
since VMS V5.0, occurs on all terminals, and only with Oracle.

Oracle technical support say "tell the customer not to do it."    
    
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352.1Just my 2 bits...HOTAIR::DAVISGil Davis @AQO DTN 554-7245Thu May 18 1989 22:0610
    Sounds like an input buffer is overflowing, or the Oracle terminal
    handling software can't handle the data rates.   Seen this in numerous
    products, the latest of which was a vaxmate running EDT.  Spurious
    characters appeared if keystrokes came too fast (like banging the
    arrow key a lot.....
    

    Appears that the problem is with Oracle, and there IS a fix for
    that....USE RDB and DECforms.