Graphics characters Linux->SCO

Wed Aug 1 12:07:05 PDT 2012

Maybe you have to take into account what character set the console is in, 
which might be UTF-8. As a test, what if you put in a character that fits 
in 7 bits?

On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Bill Campbell wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 01, 2012, Ken Cole wrote:
> >Bill,
> >
> >Do you mean you are chasing the sequence or the special filePro code
> >that sets the character which from memory is GZ?
> 
> The TERMCAP code I have for TERM=linux is GZ=: which is the same
> for xterm.  It works fine in an xterm, but not with an ssh
> connection to a SCO 5.0.6a VMware virtual machine from the CentOS
> 5.x console.
> 
> >
> >Ken
> >
> >On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com> wrote:
> >> OK, I'm still looking for the code that defines the field ending
> >> character on screens when using a Linux console to run FilePro.
> >>
> >> I have all the other graphics stuff working OK, but the fields
> >> all end with a '?' instead of a little block.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 17, 2012, Bill Campbell wrote:
> >>>On Thu, May 17, 2012, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> >>>>On 5/17/2012 3:03 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
> >>>>> Does anybody have a TERMCAP that will work on SCO 5.0.6a with the
> >>>>> correct line-drawing characters for an ssh or telnet connection
> >>>>> coming from a Linux console and TERM=linux?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My situation is a Linux box running OpenServer in a VMware VM
> >>>>> where the client wants to work at the console, not at a remote
> >>>>> system where we could use an xterm, anzio from Windows, etc.
> >>>>
> >>>>Have you tried the obvious -- copying the "linux" termcap entry from the
> >>>>Linux box to the SCO VM?  (I assume that that termcap entry works when
> >>>>running filePro on the Linux box itself.)
> >>>
> >>>OK, I think I have figured it out.  There are a couple of things
> >>>going on here.
> >>>
> >>>  1.  This version of FilePro isn't recognizing the TERMCAP or PFTERMCAP
> >>>      environment variables so it requires editing the /fp/termcap file
> >>>      directly (doesn't seem to be a problem as fptech isn't updating
> >>>      frequently :-).
> >>>
> >>>  2.  The line drawing characters and codes on the fptech web site are
> >>>      wrong.  I found this link that basically was what I had been doing:
> >>>
> >>>                 http://www.fptechforum.com/index.php?topic=171.0
> >>>
> >>>  3.  The most important factor is that a while back Red Hat went to UTF-8
> >>>      encoding on the console which is what broke the line drawing
> >>>      characters.  Adding a line to the user's .profile or to the 'pf'
> >>>      startup script reverts back to the old behavior:
> >>>
> >>>      echo -e \\033%@
> >>>
> >>>      This is described on this page:
> >>>
> >>>                 http://documentation.basis.com/kb/kb01006.html
> >>>
> >>>I've only spent about 3 hours (unbillable) time at the client
> >>>site messing with this.  Should I send an invoice to fptech?
> >>>
> >>>Bill
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