Chadley Wilson
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.
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
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.)