filePro and Anzio Lite?

[Bob Rasmussen]

See below.

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Fairlight wrote:

> I just don't get this.  Enough here use fP and Anzio...maybe someone can
> help me out.
>
> With the latest Anzio, I'm using SCOANSI (post-5.0.6) emulation.
>
> On the SCO side, I'm using tcsh.  Nothing extraordinary there.  I set TERM
> to scoansi and PFTERm to ansi or cansi.  Either way, I get the same result:
>
> I start 'p'.
>
> I enter the requisite password for this system, I get runmenu.
>
> I exit runmenu.
>
> When I'm back at the command line, my typing is double-echoed, I can back
> over my prompt with backspace, and the colour gets screwy -real- fast if I
> even try to use vim to edit .tcshrc to try to change something.  Sometimes
> it comes out of fP messed up.
>
> Everything is fine before I come out of runmenu.
>
> My 'p' is just the script, and it looked stock.  SCO 5.0.6a with various
> and sundry patches.  fP is 5.0.something.  Last I -looked- it was .7 but
> it may have been updated.
>
> This is -supposed- to be a rock solid combination--fP, SCO, and Anzio.  I
> finally get around to trying to work with the combo, and it acts absolutely
> abysmally.  And the thing where you change -nothing- in Anzio's settings
> and it wants you to re-save them when you exit is getting really old.
>
> I'm actually really sorry I bought Anzio at this point.  I was having
> better luck using xterm with PuTTY, to be honest.  Try and do it "right"
> and it's breaking all over the place.
>
> Okay, which piece do I have wrong?  None, of which I'm aware.  But someone
> please point out the obvious and tell me what I did wrong because I don't
> have the patience to fight this blasted software.  I already tried for
> 20min, and it's going beyond the point of diminishing returns.  Using stty
> sane didn't help.  Echoing the vt* escape reset code of ^[c didn't help.
> Nothing helps except shutting down Anzio and trying again.  I don't call
> that a solution.
>
> Someone please point the way.

I'll try to jump right on this even though I've had only one cup of coffee
(try to get service like that on PuTTY!).

1. You probably want to set Anzio for old-style emulation, not new-style.
Most of the software you're running predates the new style emulation.

2. When you go to quit Anzio, and it tells you something has changed, hit
Cancel. Then go to Diagnose:Debug communications. The last line will tell
you the FIRST item that it finds that is different. Hopefully, the field
name is self-explanatory. Or, do a "Save As" to save into a different
file, and then use "FC" at the command line level to compare the two
files, which are in text mode. This can be useful to see what modes have
changed.

3. If the only thing changing is the window location, turn off View:Track
Window Position, save it one more time, and that behavior will stop.

4. Have you checked your filePro termcap entry for cansi? Have you tried
using a "factory version"?

5. Does "runmenu" use the filePro termcap?

6. When characters double up, it usually indicates that Anzio has been
forced into Half Duplex mode. This can happen if Anzio receives
   Esc [ 12 l
(that's an ell on the end).

Bottom line, Anzio is receiving a bad control sequence. It might come from
a) the filePro termcap entry, b) the /etc/termcap, c) the terminfo entry,
or d) a particular program. Anzio responds to way more sequences than
single-model emulators.

If none of the above helps, there is a diagnostic procedure that you and I
can go through. Contact me offlist.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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