New subject: [SLE] Terminal emulation between SCO-Unix, Hotkey, Telnet and SuseGus

21 Jun 2005

      Chadley Wilson  writes:
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Greetings,
I am having a real tough time with Terminal emulation, more specifically on 
the SCO-Unix boxes,
any one heard of or seen an error like " got tint " when hitting the backspace 
key?
The second issue I have is simply strange, and only happens on the Suse9.3 
PCs,
The enduser uses hotkey to telnet to our central dailing server,a SCO-Unix 
box. From there they dial-out to our sites, via a selection of 32 modems. 
The question is how come the terminal emulation is so frustratingly slow when 
connecting to the Suse 9.3 boxes.
But theres a catch. If I telnet into the SCO box from a 9.3 on tty or konsole 
in X, and connect to one of the "extremely slow in HOTKEY" boxes it work s 
perfectly.
After thinking for awhile -- this sounds like a termcap problem.  The
termcap entries for one are so simplistic that considerable data
traffic is necessary in order to accomplish anything, whereas the
other has a complete termcap which allows a lot of high level cursor
manipulation.
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I can't seem to find any relevant docs, that cover this topic in detail, could 
some please point me in some direction here.
See man 5 termcap, and take a look at /etc/termcap on the respective
machines for the termcap entry which is being used for the given
setting of the TERM variable.

For my favorite terminal (rxvt):
markgray@soyo:~> set|grep -i term
COLORTERM=rxvt
TERM=xterm

For konsole:
markgray@soyo:~> set|grep -i term
COLORTERM=
TERM=xterm
markgray@soyo:~>

For linux console:
COLORTERM=1
TERM=linux
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I need a better understanding of the underlying factors at work here.
When coupled with the utf8 situation I mentioned in my previous post,
incomplete or inaccurate termcap entries sound like important factors
to look into (but I am merely guessing here.)

Re: [SLE] Terminal emulation between SCO-Unix, Hotkey, Telnet and Suse

Mark Gray

Chadley Wilson

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