Problems with running filePro over telnet on SCO 5.0.4 Enterprise

[Bill Akers]

Mark Comins wrote:
> 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.

We run XP and 2000 workstations over ethernet with termlite all day 
long everyday and have for some years with no fancy setups and no 
problems. Termlite is in ansi mode with 25 lines per screen.

As for changing the network card I have some reservations as to 
whether the problem is fixable that way but stranger things have happened.


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark Comins
> mtcomins at apeiron.com
> 
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