Which is it--fP or Anzio?

[Chad McWilliams]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Fairlight
> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 9:05 AM
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> Subject: Re: Which is it--fP or Anzio?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:57:28PM -0700, Bob Rasmussen may 
> or may not have proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Fairlight wrote:
> > 
> > > I just went to try to use fP on a client system (SCO5, fP 
> 5.0.10R4).
> > >
> > > Just going into rcabe, where it gives you the box to select 
> > > processing table name, if I just arrow down not even 
> really quickly, 
> > > certainly not holding the key down...just faster than say, 0.5 
> > > seconds, I get a failure to redraw the one that just go 
> unselected 
> > > in the right colours.  In other words, I end up with what looks 
> > > like, at the moment, 14 different entries highlighted, 
> sporadically 
> > > spread out depending how fast I arrowed around.
> > >
> > > Is this an fP issue, or an Anzio issue?  Gut says Anzio, since it 
> > > doesn't happen under PuTTY.  Presumably there'll be some sensible 
> > > explanation that makes it all "okay".  However, I didn't want to 
> > > rule out fP out of hand, just because my Anzio experiences are 
> > > adding up at an almost logarithmic rate.  Could be 
> something weird 
> > > in it.  Maybe.  Possibly.  Perhaps.  Kinda doubting it.
> > 
> > Communicating via telnet, SSH, serial, modem, or what?
> 
> I should think it shouldn't matter, unless it was flow 
> control, which it shouldn't be.  Telnet in this particular 
> case, at any rate.
> 
> > What terminal type is Anzio emulating?
> 
> scoansi
> 
> > What TERM variable at the host end?
> 
> TERM=scoansi
> PFTERM=flansi (a modified cansi to cut out the \264)
> Anzio set to emulate scoansi (old-style).
> 
> BTW, I did kill the close on conn loss and found out why it's 
> trying to resave--it's getting set back to full duplex again 
> somehow.  Which code am I looking for?  And I'll see if I 
> can't bang this into submission.  My fP termcap manual went 
> missing years back somehow.  Back when they actually supplied 
> them, I had one.  Wish I still did--I'm not sure where the 
> custom codes are documented.  Some are deducable, others not so much.
> 
> mark->

Try setting Anzio to SCOANSI, TERM to ansi, and unset PFTERM.  Does it still
do the same thing?

Just curious as these are the settings I am using with 2 different versions
of Anzio, through telnet and ssh, connecting to 5.0.6 boxes and having no
problems.

-Chad McWilliams