termcap

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2017, Brian K. White via Filepro-list wrote:
>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.

There are similar function key issues when using xterms from OS X.

...

>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.

I've always hacked the 'p' startup script for FilePro to set the
LANG, TERM, and TERMCAP environment variables.

>(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.)

See above.

Bill
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