terminal in Centos5.10

[Fairlight]

Well, Brian gave you some good advice, so...

Good luck with the storm!

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On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 10:00:10PM -0400, scooter6 at gmail.com thus spoke:
>    using 5.6.10D4
>    I've tried setting PFTERM to ansi, vt100, xterm, etc
>    All I've been able to do is get the colors to switch to black and white
>    and some other strange things....but can't get line drawing to look
>    good.....
>    Oh well....I'll see what else I can find.....
>    Hurricane weather coming soon.....so it can wait....
>    thanks mark
> 
>    On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list
>    <[1]filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> 
>      Sounds like it's not emulating an xterm, then.
>      I'd try the entry for a vt100 and see if that works.  If most/all
>      does,
>      you could borrow the vt100 entry, rename it to whatever you like,
>      and add
>      :PV: for colour, if you want.
>      There is bound to be a combination of cobbled-together entries which
>      [mostly] works.  I say mostly because there is at least one place
>      inside
>      clerk which does not honour the backspace key, even when the termcap
>      and
>      stty settings are correct, and backspace works in the majority of
>      the
>      program.  In PuTTY, you can use the alternate delete key to get
>      around this
>      particular area, although I find it annoying.  There is no known
>      fix of
>      which I'm aware.
>      All of this is on 5.0.x or earlier.  Very few of my clients have
>      adopted
>      anything past 5.0.14.
>      mark->
>      On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 09:26:00PM -0400, scooter6--- via
>      Filepro-list thus spoke:
> 
>    > When using the terminal icon in CentOS 5.10 (the one on the desktop)
>    - it's
>    > TERM is set to xterm
>    >
>    > when I execute j to get filePro menu - I get all the garbage
>    characters
>    > around border etc....
>    >
>    > Typically we use Putty via SSH to login, so it's no big deal...but I
>    am
>    > accessing from the gnome desktop on a backup server to look at some
>    things
>    > and it's driving me crazy with the ugly screens
>    > Also, F keys don't work, etc......
>    >
>    > Tried looking around but all I could find were things using emulation
>    > software like putty, etc
>    >
>    > thanks
>    >
>    > Scott
>    > PDM
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