FilePro from Linux xterm or other terminal?

[Bruce Easton]

On 8/10/10 4:31 AM, John Esak wrote:
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> 1. I don't see how any setting for Putty xcould affext filePro alerting you
> to changing a screen from mono to color (or vicce versa). That's just a
> matter of reading the file and alerting one way or the other isan't it?
> You'r not changing the screen files by the PUTty settings.
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> John
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No - sorry - I shouldn't have mentioned color when I was addressing the 
putty capabilities.  I was just wondering since Bill said he was 
tweaking an xterm emulation for use with gnome terminal, if he would get 
that question when editing a screen in filepro.  I'm not familiar with 
gnome terminal.  I certainly don't want to ever see that question 
through an emulation under Linux since I don't see any way to directly 
'paint' with colors under char-base Linux filepro like one can do under 
Windows.  So once you get that question and start editing a screen when 
you're not in the mode that it was designed with - just to add a field 
or any slight change - you're already in trouble.  (And personally, I 
don't want to mess with it under Windows either :).)  With Snow 
Leopard's default terminal, using xterm emulation, one can easily set 
the terminal's background color, etc. for use with monochrome.  And for 
the sites I connect to where someone has set basic filepro colors up in 
the config table for monochrome screens, those look great.  So for SL 
terminal anyway, if you're trying to stay monochrome, it's important to 
have that setting in the xterm termcap entry for monochrome - Mark told 
me what it was - here it is from back in June - remove the PV fp termcap 
entry.

Bruce