A little more info on the Iphone thing...

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008, John Esak wrote:
>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.

I looked through some of my old customer's fp/termcap files, but
don't see any with vt220 entries.  I know I have done this, but
don't remember whether I wrote a specific fp/termcap or perhaps
hacked the ``p'' startup to map it to another termcap.

The vt220 terminal is pretty much the same as many terminal's
ansi emulations (wyse, links, etc.).  Creating an fp/termcap
entry would be pretty easy as one could probably just add vt220
to an existing termcap entry or write one yourself as the fp
termcap simply extends the standard $TERMCAP with the Filepro
labels and functions.  It's been a while since I wrote/modified
Filepro termcap entries, but could probably put one together in
an hour or so if necessary.

Bill
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