termcap

[Brian K. White]

What terminal are you using?

I think gnome-terminal has to be told to use linux emulation mode 
through a setting, and then further, told not to use F1 and F10 etc for 
itself.

Then also we had to build our own compat-libtermcap
because the stock one didn't provide a *working* 32-bit libtermcap.so.2
http://yum.aljex.com/yumrepo/centos/7/i686/
http://yum.aljex.com/yumrepo/centos/7/SRPMS/

That might or might not be fixed upstream by now, but I know that 
currently, we are still using this package.

We also change the default character set from utf8 to cp437 by
LANG="en_US" in /etc/locale.conf
this way when you configure a terminal to suit the filepro termcap for 
linux, everything else on the system (outside of filepro) also works on 
that same terminal. May need to reboot for that change to take full 
effect, because your desktop session which read that file was actually 
started at system boot, even if you log out and log back in.

(The *correct* way to handle that LANG problem is *probably* to figure 
out a special init sequence to add to the filepro termcap that switches 
the terminal into/out of utf8 mode, or perhaps set LANG as an 
environment variable in the terminal config and configure sshd_config to 
allow the client to set LANG, ...all of which is handled completely 
differently when the "terminal" is actually a local instance of xterm or 
gnome-terminal. In that case maybe you could do something with the 
desktop file or make a small shell script that sets it instead of 
running gnome-terminal directly, or maybe that's something that could be 
done from within gnome-terminal's profiles support... Or just change the 
system-wide default like above.)

We are only accessing this remotely though, a centos 7 x86_64 box with 
filepro 5.0.14. No gnome desktop. But We access it using the same 
terminal emulators as any other box, with the terminal in "linux" mode, 
cp437 charset, DejaVu Sans Mono font. So, once you have gnome-terminal 
doing linux mode, it's the same as a remote emulator doing linux mode.

-- 
bkw



On 5/31/2017 10:04 AM, D Rottkamp via Filepro-list wrote:
> Hi
>
> Anyone have success running filepro 5.7 on centos 7 gnome desktop
> with terminal emulator, with successful function keys, successful graphics (borders etc)
> I have it working on centos 5 , but centos 7 with same parameters and same termcap files
> do not work with graphics and function keys.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave Rottkamp
> Century 21 Select group
> Cell 570-620-8027
>
> www.poconolakeproperties.com
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