Macs and fP

[Bruce Easton]

JP, maybe someone else has come up with a different scenario, but for 
recent SCO, the default Terminal app that comes with OS/X should look a 
bit better than using the iTerm2 app (which doesn't visually connect 
vertical line as fluidly unless I missed something).  But if I was 
setting up a default Terminal app session for an iMac out of the box for 
use with filepro to connect to SCO, I would do the following:

For the new Terminal app session being set up on the mac client:

1.  Set the character encoding to Latin-US (DOS).    (Advanced tab.)
2.  Set the terminal type as xterm.  (Advanced tab.)
3.  Set the Title and Startup Run command on the Window and Shell tabs.

For the mac client in general:

For the client OS, Expose app (Snow Leopard) or System 
Prefs-Keyboard-Keyboard Shortcuts-Mission Control (Lion/ML?):

1.  Change at least Mission Control & Application windows  to activate 
with Ctrl-F9, Ctrl-F10 (instead of just F9, F10), so as not to interfere 
with filepro's needs for these function keys. (You could change F9-F12 
for consistency I suppose.)

For the SCO server:

1.  Just make sure that when it connects, it is setting TERM to xterm; 
if not, then the login profile would need to do that on the server.
2.  I'm assuming that the filepro formats on the server are not color, 
so in filepro's termcap file, under the entry for linux (referenced by 
the entry for xterm), remove the  "PV:" at the end of the line starting 
with ":kh".

This should wind up with a good monochrome terminal session where the 
operator can easily use ctrl-+/- to resize the window up or down with 
very smooth fonts.  In the Terminal app, you can also set the 
background/foreground colors for the monochrome session. I do like text 
on a light background, but the mac monitors are so bright, I had to gray 
the background down some for regular use.

Bruce

On 2/17/13 12:39 PM, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> Bruce Easton propounded (on Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 05:33:52PM -0500):
> | On 2/15/13 5:15 PM, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> | > One of my clients, using Anzio on Windows XP to access their filePro
> | > database on a Unix server, is thinking of replacing the Windows machines
> | > with Apple units.  What should then take the place of Anzio?
> | >
> | > If using telnet is the solution, what termcap/terminfo setting on the
> | > Unix server should be used for those connections?
> |
> | How old is the Unix OS, JP?
> |
> | Bruce
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