Problems with running filePro over telnet on SCO 5.0.4 Enterprise

[Bill Vermillion]

Putting quill to paper and scribbling furiously on Sun, Jan 09 10:19  
Mark Comins missed achieving immortality when he said: 


> We have a customer running a SCO 5.0.4 Enterprise box and
> are moving from serial terminals to an Ethernet connection
> using Windows XP workstations for their terminal sessions. We
> installed the Termlite terminal emulator and found it works
> well except for filePro which locks. Sometimes we can get the
> menu to draw but typically that will also freeze. Pulling up
> any part of filePro such as dclerk, dreport, ddfine, etc also
> causes the screen to freeze. We have to close the session by
> hitting the X thus ending the program.

> During our testing we found that Word Perfect and scoadmin
> worked fine and there were no screendraw problems or lockups.
> We also tried telnet and Anzio Lite but had the same problems.
> Different hardware on the workstations including different
> Ethernet cards produced the same results. This is an older HP
> Netserver with a HP J2973A Bus Master Ethernet card. The system
> is not connected to the Internet and has a IP of 192.168.1.10
> and a submask of 255.255.255.0. A call to FP tech support
> produced no suggestions.

> Our next step was going to be to remove the HP Ethernet card
> and try a 3Com905 and mabe a new switch. Any suggestions to
> resolve this would be appreciated.

Changing hardware will not fix a software problem which
obviously [from my POV] this is..

And also you neglected to say what emulation you are using .

Bill
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