Problems with running filePro over telnet on SCO 5.0.4Enterprise

[Bill Vermillion]

On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 19:45 , Mark Comins gie sprachen "Vyizdur 
zomen emororz izaziz zander isorziz", and continued with:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Vermillion" <fp at wjv.com>
> To: "filePro List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 10:31 AM
> Subject: Re: Problems with running filePro over telnet on SCO
> 5.0.4Enterprise
> 
> 
> > 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 .

> ansi

Well try scoansi - which is what many emulators have and which
the filePro termcap expects.  It's also known in the termcap
in filePro as 'ansi' but I've found that pure ansi emulation
is really poor in other emulators.  You said you tried Anzio.

Why not check it again and try the scoansi - which I believe is in
that program.

Bill
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