using a mac with linux and filepro

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007, Richard D. Williams wrote:
>
>   Has anyone used a telnet or ssh session from a MAC to access filepro
>   running on a Red Hat Linux server?
>   Any issues?  Any ssh programs that might work well for this purpose?

I use the standard ssh and xterms to access Linux systems all the time.
Personally I prefer the Linux version of xterm to the one that's standard
on OS X so I execute a curses based menu program I wrote on a Linux server
in an xterm on that machine, then execute other programs in xterms from
that menu.

My csmenu program is written in python with ncurses, and simply finds all
executables under a directory, presenting a selection of these commands,
and can use ``vi'' style pattern matching to limit the display.

Using ssh public key authentication, my first command to execute the menu
program on my server is:

ssh -f myhostname xterm -e csmenu

The programs I normally execute from this are generally two line shell
scripts that fire off an xterm to run an application:

#!/bin/sh
xterm -e someprogram &

The biggest problem I've found is that the numeric keypad doesn't get the
right numeric codes in python/ncurses applications.  This is using a PS/2
Microsoft natural keyboard connected to a Mac Mini using a 4-port KVM
switch and a USB->PS/2 adapter between the KVM switch and the Mac.

Bill
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