(OT) screen garbled BackupEdge install on OSR 5.0.7

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009, Fairlight wrote:
>Confusious (Alias for filepro) say:
>> Hi Bill.
>> 
>> My recollection is that XTERM from SCO and Linux have very little relation
>> from a capabilities and terminfo standpoint. 
>
>I'd have to look at the entries to back up any technical claims to the
>contrary, but anecdotally, xterm is the one entry I can actually depend on
>working more or less correctly with PuTTY--surpassing vt100 by far in terms
>of stability and usability.  It's been my experience that xterm is the best
>one to try.  Obviously it's not working so well for Bill, but I surely
>wouldn't hold out hope for SCO's vt100 emulation doing a better job. :/

The vt100 emulation is generally a lowest common denominator that
works with most things, although function key handling is often
an issue (I miss the terminals with PF1->PF4 immediately above
the numeric keypad where $DEITY intended them :-).

I have found the vt220 emulation usually works with most dumb
terminal's ANSI emulation, but I don't have any serial ports to
use for dumb terminals here (although my wife is constantly on me
to get rid of the ones I have in the garage just in case I ever
need one again :-).

I have often had to hack TERMCAPs for FilePro, and never had real
problems with it.

I gave up on color years ago when moving from the sco scoterm to
xterms, preferring black characters on a light background with a
red block cursor which makes characters visible in fields highlighted
with reverse video (it's kinda hard to see a black character on a
black background).  I find the color combinations used by most
things on SCO systems basically unreadable as are vim's syntax
highlighting -- even with Mark's color recommendations.

Bill
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