the terminal blues

[John Esak]

If you are using the Wyse 3125se ThinTerm computer to access filePro, this
may be of interest to you.

I'm top-posting back to Carol here.

First things first. You mention the tech at Wyse wanting you to put up the
latest version of the firmware... normally, I would whol-heartedly agree.
That is simply the best thing to do all the time... USUALLY! It so happens
that Rick and I (mostly I) went round and round for days just a week or so
ago because I stupidly did this very thing. There were 3 offerings on the
Wyse firmware download page and I took what appeared to be the  most
current. Somthing like 5.0... Anyway, we could *not* make the wireless
adaptors work... and a couple other things. The vendor told me that he had
also had trouble with the latest firmware and he reverted back to the 4
level. (This is the first choice on the firmware download page... labled
CE-NET... the one at the top of the 3 choices.)

My suggestion is to downgrade to that specific version and see if much of
your trouble doesn't go away. I can get some help from people here about
Linux and the right setting for PFTERM and the filePro termcap G settings,
but I would try getting the best-known working firmware first. I'm not
saying Wyse is wrong... I'm just saying they are wrong.... :-)

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carol Saah [mailto:csaah at cox.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 8:14 AM
> To: john at valar.com
> Subject: the terminal blues
>
>
> John,
>
> Okay, I attempted the install.  However, one of the terminals is having
> issues connecting and so I am in the middle of negotiation with Wyse on
> getting that issue resolved.
>
> IN THE PROCESS of talking to Wyse, he asked me to upgrade the firmware to
> build 547.
>
> HMMMMM.... Totally different terminal emulator!!!!  You might have noticed
> this yourself and have been working out the issues.  :-)
>
> By the way, in case you haven't figured it out, to reset the
> terminal, go to
> Control Panel -> System.  There is a checkbox to reset the
> terminal on that
> page.
>
> Anyway, I have 2 issues which I hope you could help me on:
>
> 1. If I choose BBS ANSI or SCO ANSI from the PowerTerm Connection
> Properties, using PFTERM=cansi, the dclerk menu and menus are
> okay the FIRST
> time I enter the filepro menus.
>
> But, going into Add Record, screen 0 of a file, e.g., the
> horizontal line on
> the screen consists of A's with 2 dots above the A's.
>
> Then, exiting out of add record, all of the graphical characters in the
> menus are incorrect.
>
> I am wondering if you could give me the correct capabilities for GA-GY to
> change the cansi termcap in fp.  GZ is okay.
>
> 2. In Linux, the DEL key is Ctrl-c.  When I pressed Ctrl-C to DEL
> out of an
> FP screen, an "o" with a tick above it appears on the screen in the place
> where I press Ctrl-c.  Pressing Ctrl-L removes the character from the
> position.
>
> At a command prompt, if I type Ctrl-v, Ctrl-v, Ctrl-c, ^V is displayed
> FOLLLOWED by that character o with a tick on it.
>
> Does this give you a hint on what is going on and maybe what I could do to
> solve it?
>
> The same problem appears when using xterm or wy60, but the "less than or
> equal to" sign appears, not the o with the tick.
>
> 3. Another thing that I can ask Wyse, also, is how to permanently hide the
> menu that appears when telnet'ing into the server.
>
> 4. I'm tempted to ask that technician for the old build 529 to revert back
> to the old way, but it is probably better to go with new software
> if all of
> the glitches can be removed.
>
> Again, Thanks.  I am on my way to work now so probably will not
> be available
> by phone.
>
>
> Carol Saah
>