On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:33:16 -0800 (PST) "Mark K. Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Looks like you won't have any issue. My distribution, and probably > the one you'll be isntalling on your sister's systems, already has > "scoansi" terminfo at the following location: > > /usr/share/terminfo/s/scoansi > > To use this terminfo, simply set the environment variable TERM (in > Bourne Shell, or "term" in CSH) to "scoansi". This lets programs running on Linux run on a SCO ANSI terminal - not the other way around. > FYI, both termcap and terminfo describes the sequence of characters a > program sends to stdout to control various behaviors of the terminal. > There are character sequences (usually beginning with <esc>) for > clearing the screen, moving the cursor, bolding the text, etc. UNIX, > since it's so flexible, can handle multiple types, as long as you tell > it what terminal type is in use. > > Termcap is the old way of doing things, and all the termal character > sequence information was all stored in /etc/termcap in plain ASCII. > Terminfo is the new way of doing things, and the binary file > describing each terminal character sequence is stored in one file per > terminal type in /usr/share/terminfo (or /etc/terminfo, and other > places the system has designated.) Linux will work with either (I > suppose preferring terminfo, then falling back on termcap if terminfo > for the specified terminal isn't available.) > > Printer filter data files look very much like the old /etc/termcap > file, since the principle of bolding text and things like that is > same. I imagine the newer printer filter data files look more like > the new terminfo file format. > > There is a pair of programs for converting data from terminfo to > termcap format and vice-versa. Look at man pages for `captoinfo` and > `infotocap`. > > -Mark > > > On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Rod Roark wrote: > > > So, the good news is that my sister, an MD in Tennessee, > > wants me to switch most of the computers in her clinic from > > Windows to Linux. > > > > They have a practice management system running on an SCO > > server (yeah, I know...) and it seems the clients currently > > connect to it via telnet with a Windows terminal emulation > > program. I'm told by the vendor that the terminal program > > needs to support "SCO ANSI" as the terminal type. > > > > The upgraded clients will run KDE, so the obvious terminal > > program is Konsole; I think it works a lot like xterm and > > may even be based on it. > > > > Anyway, I don't really understand all the nuances of termcap, > > terminfo, setterm, stty, etc. and what, if anything I might > > need to do to make the terminal emulation work properly. > > I did some googling but it was not very helpful. > > > > Does anyone understand this stuff enough to enlighten me? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- Rod > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > > > > -- > Mark K. Kim > AIM: markus kimius > Homepage: http://www.cbreak.org/ > Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/vindaci > Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/user.php?uid=13046 > PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 > 5DCE PGP key available on the homepage > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures.
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