OT: broken/useless ansi - console driver??

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting John Esak (Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:44:03 -0400):

> > If you log in via telnet or ssh, FacetWin, or Anzio, or using a
> > scoterm in X Window, scoansi should be your default TERM, and ansi
> > will work too.
>
> My god JP! You've put it in a nutshell! This is precisely the point. If
> it works in all these cases, (as I've been using as a workaround..) why
> in the world doesn't soansi work on the console - as it always has?

Anything that gives you a non-console session is under control of the
vendor who wrote the client software.  The O/S vendor has nothing to
do with how the client vendor has written the terminal emulation.
With the possible exception of the X Terminal, SCO has nothing to do
with the emulation of the others, and couldn't change their behavior
even if they wanted to.  (Short of supplying broken termcap/terminfo
files, that is.)

Now, whether or not the console's change is good or bad is another
issue, and can be argued either way.

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