Problems with running filePro over telnet on SCO 5.0.4Enterprise

[Mark Comins]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
To: "Fplist (E-mail)" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 11:05 AM
Subject: RE: Problems with running filePro over telnet on SCO
5.0.4Enterprise


>
>
> > -----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.
>

telnet also locks when I go into any filePro program.

> John
>
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