Graphics characters Linux->SCO

[Bill Campbell]

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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