Recommended terminal emulation

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012, John Sica wrote:
>Just move a client from Openserver 5 to Centos 6.2 and am not having fun 
>with the emulation.  The console emulation running ansic is poor for 
>representing colors, and when I try to run an emulation on the PCs that 
>runs Filepro with colors, I can't switch to the shell and edit files 
>using any kind of editor, I have to switch my emulation back to VT220 in 
>Facetwin.

I posted some things recently on this list regarding using the
CentOS console connecting to a FilePro system.  The main problem
is that Red Hat/CentOS went to UTF-8 coding on the console which
causes problems with the FilePro graphics characters.  Everything
is working OK for me on that except the little square boxes at
the end of fields is showing as question marks.

Rather than manually fiddling the TERM environment variable, I
hacked the 'p' startup script to set it when entering FilePro
based on things like the original TERM variable and the output of
the tty command.

>We used the latest version of Facetwin on the PCs so I was wondering if 
>anyone in this group has a recommended emulation to set on the console, 
>and what emulation they would recommend for proper color representation 
>on the PCs. Right now we use ansic on the PCs as their environment, and 
>SCOANSI as the emulation chosen in Facetwin. I know Facetwin has a 
>limited number of emulation choices, so I realize this is not going to 
>be easy.

Many use Anzio from PCs.  We have one client using TinyTerm.
Personally I don't like the colors and use straight xterms from
Linux and Macs.

Bill
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