FilePro from Linux xterm or other terminal?

[Bruce Easton]

On 7/28/10 4:23 PM, Bruce Easton wrote:
> On 7/28/10 4:09 PM, Fairlight wrote:
>    
>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:51:19PM -0400, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
>> Bruce Easton cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
>>
>>      
>>> I think one setting that I have always have had to have set for filepro
>>> is under 'Window', then 'Translation' in putty.  The top select box
>>> should be set to CP437.  I use Snow Leopard's default 'Terminal' app for
>>>
>>>        
>> Depends what you're doing.  In instances mixing xterm emulation with
>> screen(1) on ssh sessions, things tend not to draw correctly unless you set
>> UTF-8--such as the arrow graphical characters in mutt.
>>
>> And FWIW, PuTTY is really more akin to xterm emulation than vt100
>> emulation.
>>
>> mark->
>>
>>      
> I tried from a Windows putty ssh'ing to a site with that setting set to
> UTF-8 and with TERM set to xterm for the target system.  the filepro
> menu did come up and with some color, but the lines&  box chars were
> messed up.  If I set the translation to CP437 and tell it to notify a
> TERM of ansi (under 'Connection' - 'Data'), everything looks good
> (albeit mono which is all I ever want).  Of course I realize I'm not
> using 'screen(1)' in this test and testing nothing other than filepro's
> main menu, but am I doing something wrong for the xterm emulation?
> (I've used the ansi with cp437 for years.)
>
> Bruce
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I should point out, though, since I mentioned earlier about using 
Terminal in snow leop., that for *that*, I do have it set to use xterm 
emulation with translation of 'Latin-US (DOS)'.  For the target filepro 
systems supported with this type of connection, I've been using that 
specification discussed recently on the forum in filepro's termcap entry 
for xterm to keep things monochrome.

Bruce