OT: broken/useless ansi - console driver??

[Bob Stockler]

Bill Campbell wrote (on Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 02:44:54PM -0700):

| On Sun, Oct 23, 2005, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
| >John Esak propounded (on Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:23:51AM -0400):
| >| Okay JP says the at386ei termcap is niether broken or useless.  I disagree.
| >| His explanation that it is merely the Unixware  something or another doesn't
| >| quite address the situation... which as I see it is this.
| >| 
| ...
| >No, on the console, you just use the at386-ie termcap. 
| >You need to make two modifications: stty flush= '', and change
| >GZ to octal 275.
| >If you add PV, it gives you color.
| >
| >I never played with turning the cursor off and on, but if CF and CN are
| >missing, just copy in the civis and cvvis values from the terminfo file.
| 
| This sounds like something the average OpenServer user or even consultant
| would figure out immediately.
| 
| One of the major strong points of SCO Xenix->OpenServer has always been
| backwards compatibility with few surprises.

I'm on recently installed SCO OSR 6 with filePro 5.0.14D4.

I'm usually using filePro in an ScoTerm window on my desktop, or
with AnzioLite or FacetWin, and I haven't seen any problems.

So, after reading this thread long enough, I logged in on another
console multiscreen.  My terminal was announced as being at386-ei.

On executing p the filePro Main Menu displayed as expected.  Then,
on going into a filePro file (fpcust) using dclerk, from there
everything looked as usual except the EOF markers were just little
dots in midline (I hadn't made the tremcap edit JPR suggested).

Also, I noted that <Ctrl>+O in a field on the screen erased all to
the end of the field after the cursor, so the note in the termcap
for at386-ei that <Ctrl>+O was broken in it isn't completely true.

Bob

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