A little more info on the Iphone thing...

John Esak john.esak at 21appr.com
Sun Oct 26 19:19:59 PDT 2008


I now know that Rick is using a program called MochaSoft... Or it is written
by that company.  A small telnet of sorts that allows the Iphone to log into
his SCO O/S 5 box.  Once there, at the command line or in "vi" pressing the
ESCAPE generates the correct thing ... Depicted by a ^[   At least, that
what we all know and love as the ESCAPE key which makes things happen in
filePro.  Yet, when he presses this key inside rclerk, nothing happens.
Strange.

I had him stop at the command line, and found out his TERM is set to vt220.
There is no vt220 in his /appl/fp/termcap...  There is one in
/etc/termcap... It of course has nothing useful in it for filePro.  Can't I
assume that putting some good P and L values into this termcap and copying
it over into the /appl/fp/termcap should fix him up?  I would think so.

First, I have to learn how his TERM is being set to vt220.  When he logs in
as rick, somewhere he gets his TERM set to ansi... At least that is the way
it usually works on systems I set up.  Somehow when he comes in through this
little utility, he is getting TERM set to vt220.  I'll check that out.  But
in the meantime, I'm wondering if anyone has a vt220 set up for filePro
already?  If so, could you dump the termcap up here for me?  This is pretty
much the very last thing I have time for at this moment, and yet I don't
want to leave him playing around in the dark.

John



John Esak



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