Problems with running filePro over telnet on SCO 5.0.4 Enterprise

[John Esak]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Mark
> Comins
> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 10:20 AM
> To: filepro-list at seaslug.org
> Subject: Problems with running filePro over telnet on SCO 5.0.4
> Enterprise
>
>
> Good morning.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark Comins
> mtcomins at apeiron.com
>
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Well, my suggestion is to first see if it is the Termlite software... I have
never used that or even heard of it. I used Century Term for a long time
until the copany and product started being difficult.

I realize you said WordPerfect and other things work through the terminal
software and filePro doesn't... but still... Try going to a DOS prompt on
your XP box and typing:

  telnet 192.168.1.10

Run filePro. It won't look good with graphics and no function keys will work
right... at least not many... but just see if the menus allow you to move up
and down without the freeze-up you are describing.  If it works, there is
some setting in the Termlite software that is juking you. Otherwise, go back
to diagnosing what filePro may be doing... but I don't think it can do
much... at least not to cause such a freeze-up.

John