OT: setting for using putty on Ubuntu Desktop for Filepro which is running on a Linux Server.

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com>
>
>> > Personally, I've never seen the point of the linux port of PuTTY.
>> > Maybe
>> > Brian or Jay have a differing view that explains the benefits.
>> > They're the
>> > ones most likely to.
>> 
>> Any old xterm-alike is good enough to run cp and rm.
>> 
>> For anything else there are countless reasons any old xterm-alike is
>> total crap. You may live without but no one else should be expected
>> to.
>
>> I don't happen to use putty on linux myself, but I absolutely see why
>> one might, and it's a perfectly reasonable choice and a perfectly
>> reasonable way to invest one time in getting a terminal working
>> perfectly and then have that config be portable and have it work most
>> times on most versions of most OS's.
>
>I don't either, but in my case that's because, by and large, I'm using
>SuSE, and KDE3, and Konsole is really quite a decent emulation; certainly
>good enough to run filePro in.  

I have set up several Linux and Unix systems running FilePro, some with
xterms, some with Putty, some with the Gnome terminal,  In spite of
considerable fiddling of termcaps, I haven't find any that are perfect
handling FilePro's graphics characters (in particular the field ending
character in regular screens).

Not all xterms are equal, particularly in the codes sent for function and
backspace keys.  I usually force backspace and interrupt to be ctrl-h and
ctrl-c as $DEITY intended with "stty intr '^C' erase '^H'" in the user's
.profile or in the FilePro startup scripts to avoid inconsistencies when
moving from system to system.

Bill
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