Properly Configuring Terminal Emulation in Unix?

Posted by Cliff on Monday October 29, 2001 @06:55AM from the termcap-terminfo-terminal-headache dept.

Jobe_br asks: "I've recently come across a need for a way of connecting to a SCO Unix box with full SCO-ANSI emulation (so that I can send F1-F12 commands and ASCII line art appears as lines, not strange foreign letters). After checking out the Terminal-HOWTO at linuxdoc.org I came away with no clearer understanding of what I need to do. I can pretty much pick any 'ole terminal emulator for win32 and get what I need, but no matter what I do to fiddle with my xterms/eterms/vts I can't get things to go. Is this not facilitated under Linux?"

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Re:/etc/terminfo by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-29 09:06 · Score: 1, Insightful

In a perfect world, this would work well:

Unfortunately, I use an app on SCO that has it's own termcap database, and the app itself is written for use only by the ANSIC terminal type (color, F keys, etc...). Since the app uses it's own termcap DB, and it is written specifically for the ANSIC terminal type...

Poor design, yes, but that's the way it was written. Which means I need to figure out a way to get linux to speak SCOANSI/ANSIC - an ideas?