Graphics characters Linux->SCO

[Ken Cole]

Bill,

Do you mean you are chasing the sequence or the special filePro code
that sets the character which from memory is GZ?

regards

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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