Fp on OpenBSD...

[Chad McWilliams]

> > Hello everyone.
> 
> > Has anyone had an opportunity to try filePro on OpenBSD 3.5 using 
> > either the SCO or FreeBSD binaries?
> 
> Just a comment on Open, vs Net, vs FreeBSD.
> 
> Open's thrust is to be extremely secure.  The line by line 
> code analysis found a lot of buffer overflows that were 
> migraded/fixed in NetBSD and FreeBSD.  And the entire 
> community benefitted from that as the BSD type licnese means 
> it is used in many places where you have no idea it is being used.
> 
> But it's a small company and as I understand it Theo DeRaddt 
> drives it all, and appears to be more of a PITA than Daniel J 
> Bernstein. This is based on comments I've read/heard over the years.
> 
> His outspoken views caused him to have a very large US 
> government contract cancelled - and the company operates out 
> of Canda. It's pretty close to a one man direction.
> 
> NetBSD has it's goal of operating on more different hardware 
> systems than anything else :-). And
> 
> FreeBSD has a core team of 15 people who are voted upon every 
> two years - and is a non-profit corporation.  There are a 
> couple of hundred committers who work on various pieces and 
> can make changes to only the area they administer, and there 
> are a lot more that can submit code for review and approval, 
> and then have one of the committers inject the code into the tree.
> 
> So if you are going to run FP on OpenBSD you will have about 
> the least support of any nBSD OS.  You would probably get 
> better support on DragonFly as Matt is pretty damn good too.
> 
> If you want the most supported/in-use go with FreeBSD.
> 
> Verio in Germany is migrating to that platform, to joing the 
> 250,000 FreeBSD systems that they already are using.  I 
> suspect Verio alone may have more installs than Open - but 
> that's just a wild guess.
> 
> 
> Bill
> -- 

I do understand the differences/concerns with the different *BSD groups.
The problem I have is that, due to a theft of equipment at one of our
locations, I need to get filePro up and running quickly at my remote
site temporarily.  The only thing at the remote site I have to work with
is an OpenBSD box, so that forces my hand at the moment.

I have narrowed down the problem I'm having and hoping maybe someone
could shed a little light on the issue.

Filepro (SCO binaries) seems to run fine on the OpenBSD box under the
ibcs2 emulation.  The problem is at the main menu, at the Enter
Selection prompt, it acts if someone is holding down a key.  Everything
is slow to respond, and there is a constant stream of data across the
wire.  It continues until you exit filepro.  It does this no matter what
terminal emulation I use (I'm using Anzio to connect).  In playing with
the termcap a little, I discovered that the value of cm=\E[%i%d;%dH has
something to do with the problem.  If I set cm=: then I don't have the
problem, although the screen doesn't draw correctly, of course.

So if anybody has a remote idea, I'm more than open to trying anything.
I don't have that much experience with dealing with the termcap/terminfo
files, so I'm kinda lost right now.

Thanks,

-Chad McWilliams