FW: OT: Color, the SCO console vs FacetWin

[John Esak]

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Bill
> Campbell
> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 5:20 PM
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> Subject: Re: FW: OT: Color, the SCO console vs FacetWin
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 04, 2004, John Esak wrote:
> >
> >Well, let's see. I was never able to get all the Function Keys to work
> >properly. I also could not get the graphics to work. I never tried vt100
> >though. I had always played with the sco-ansi emulation.
> >But, next week, I'll download the latest PuTTY and maybe you can give me
> >some pointers. Nancy was helping some girl in the FP Room for
> about an hour
> >with it on Friday I think and she also hit some snags... the same kind I
> >did.
>
> Function key mappings for ``ansi'' emulations aren't all created equal.  I
> finallly got tired of figuring out the mappings using ``vi'' with liberal
> applications of ctrl-v FKEY to figure out what a particular terminal
> program sent so wrote an ncurses based C program, termkeys, that prompts
> you for each function key, F1 through F14, the shifted function keys,
> insert, home, pgup, pgdn, end, and the arrow keys, then generates termcap
> and terminfo entries for that terminal.  My impetus for writing this came
> when I had to deal with function keys sending multiple non-printing
> characters that would stymie vi's ctrl-v escape.
>
> I haven't had time to properly package source for this program, but an SCO
> OpenServer 5.0.6a version is available for people on the list who might
> want to try it.  I haven't tried this on any systems other than the one on
> which it was built so can't say for sure that it won't have some missing
> libraries on a stock SCO box.
>
> ftp://ftp.celestial.com/private/termkeys_sco506a.tar.gz
>
> Bill
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Thanks Bill. This ounds pretty cool.
John

P.S. - Oops, I just tried the link and it took me to "nowhere". Just an
hourglass... no URL lised... kind of Twilight Zonish. :-)