error, or spurious error

[Roger Cornelius]

On 01/26/2010 20:46, Mike Schwartz wrote:
> > > I'm running an xterm under kde 3.5 on OSR 6. My filePro is 5.6.10D4.
> > >
> > > Trying 'p' or 'dclerk' errors out with:
> > >
> > > 	*** A filePro Error Has Occurred ***
> > >
> > > 	Cannot run:
> > >
> > > 	Entry: cm
> > >
> > > 	On File: /appl/fp/lib/config
> > >
> > > 	Required terminal feature not available.
> > >
> > > If there's a termcap error, why is the 'config' file being blamed?
> > >
> > > I've copied the linux and xterm entries from the 5.6.10D4/termcap
> > file
> > > into an fp4.8/termcap file, and when connecting via ssh from
> > > an xterm to
> > > that fp4.8 machine, I see no such filePro error.
> > >
> > > --
> > > JP
> 
>      Hmmm...   I noticed that same exact error message yesterday when I was
> testing the Putty terminal emulator on a freshly installed SCO Openserver
> 6.0 system running filepro 5.6.10.  Facetwin and Anzio terminal emulators
> installed and ran just fine, but I needed to access the server from a
> Windows workstation that had only Putty installed.
> 
>      I tried various terminal emulations on the Putty, and was finally able
> to get it working well enough to finish licensing the Facetwin, although I
> never did get the graphics looking well enough on Putty to pull up the
> filePro menu and look at a few things in filePro.
> 
>      Every time I tried some combination of settings in Putty that filePro
> didn't like, I got that message.
> 
>      I didn't think to copy the linux and xterm entries into the filepro
> termcap.  I thought filePro would take care of filling in any missing
> termcap entries as I played with different "TERM=" settings in the shell.
> 
> Mike Schwartz  

I haven't seen JP's error message, but try setting "Received data assumed
to be in which character set:" to CP437 in the putty Window->Translation
config screen to render the graphics chars correctly.  Among other
things, I also set the following but don't think they matter for this
issue:

Terminal->Keyboard:
 Backspace Key = Control-H
 Function Keys and Keypad = SCO

Terminal->Features:
 Check "Disable remote-controlled terminal resizing"

Window->Appearance:
 Change font to "Terminal"
  
Connection->Data:
 Terminal-type string = ansi

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Roger Cornelius            rac at custom-mobility.com