Graphics characters Linux->SCO

[Bill Campbell]

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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