OT: Color, the SCO console vs FacetWin

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In the relative spacial/temporal region of
Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 07:11:39AM -0400, Brian K. White achieved the spontaneous
generation of the following:
> 
> Oh please. reg files are plain text. It is expected that if you are
> concerned, you simply look at it in a text editor. It's impossible to hide
> any back doors in it.
> In any event, this was exported from an XPhome machine and as such will not
> import into your windows for workgroups 3.11.  :)

It's win95b.  :)

Technically, PuTTY settings should transplant.  They did between 95/98se.
It's not like there's a PuTTY XP or somesuch.

> > The problem, more than likely, is in my termcap settings on the remote
> > host, not my PuTTY settings.  I mean, SCO keys aside, it really only
> > has one screen-drawing emulation mode.
> 
> That's why the above settings cause putty to emulate the sco console, rather
> than vt-any, or xterm. To avoid the need to install or edit the hosts
> termcap & terminfo. It uses an entry that's already always in the stock
> termcap & terminfo.

That's -entirely- the backwards way of doing things, IMNSHO.  If it works
for you, go for it.  I don't believe in munging an application to cater to
lousy settings on a server.  And I've personally always considered SCO's
scoansi flaky and unnecessary.  A prior ANSI standard existed for a reason.
A proper termcap/terminfo creation (termcap only in the case of fP) to make
a quirky system behave as most generic (ie., any terminal emulation package
in the world, not just the 3 or 4 that support scoansi) emulator expects
things to go is the correct way to do it, IMHO.  YMMV.  IANAL.  And other
cliched acronyms.  :)

mark->
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