terminal in Centos5.10

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

Thanks Brian - I'll look into this
Appreciate the suggestions



On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 10:38 PM, Brian K. White via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> On 9/9/2017 9:26 PM, scooter6--- via Filepro-list wrote:
> "the terminal icon in CentOS 5.10 (the one on the desktop)"
> doesn't mean anything. There are 20 different xterm-alikes out there.
> Is it: xterm? lxterm? xfce4-terminal? gnome-terminal? konsole?
>
> They all claim to be "xterm" by setting TERM=xterm or TERM=xterm-color
> etc, but they are all a little different from each other.
>
> I'm guessing that the default desktop is either gnome or kde, and so the
> thing you're actually using is either gnome-terminal or konsole.
>
> You have a couple different problems. One, the "xterm" terminal emulated
> by gnome-terminal is not the same "xterm" terminal described by the filepro
> "xterm" termcap entry, and amazingly, neither filepro nor gnome-terminal
> are in the wrong. There have been a few different definitions of "xterm"
> over the decades. Another is that the terminal is most likely configured to
> use Unicode/UTF-8 (multi-byte) character encoding, while filepro is
> strictly (single byte) CP-437 or Latin-1 etc.
>
> What I usually do is install my own known-behavior terminal and use that
> everywhere rather than expect whatever terminal the desktop happens to
> provide to actually work. IE, I install rxvt or Sakura usually, and I have
> "rxvt" and "xterm" termcaps I fixed up myself which work with those. Then
> it doesn't matter if the desktop is Enlightenment with it's own "eterm" or
> KDE with "konsole" etc etc... I'm always using the same "rxvt".
>
> And you have to make a little launcher script that disables UTF-8 in that
> session. There is a tset command which I forget that turns utf-8 off, and
> you might also want to set LANG=C in the environment (to make other apps
> like mc and vi work in the now-non-utf-8 terminal)
>
> If the desktop were kde, there is a simpler answer. I know that konsole
> has a "linux console" mode right in it's preferences/profiles menu. You can
> click that, and then set TERM=linux, and then fp should work pretty well
> just from that.
>
> --
> bkw
>
>
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