A little more info on the Iphone thing...

[Nancy Palmquist]

John,

You can set PFTERM=ansi or any existing filepro termcap.  TERM is what UNIX uses 
and PFTERM is what filepro uses if it exists.

Is ansi close to vt220?

I often have TERM=ansi and PFTERM=ansic.  But if the vt220 is similar to a real 
filepro termcap entry, you can just append those entries with the PFTERM setting.

*Remember the filepro termcap is an overlay on the Unix termcap.  I know you 
know that, but I added it for the other users.

Sounds like an interesting trick you are playing with.

Nancy

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.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> John Esak
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