TERM setting problem.

[surnj1]

Hi,

I have Sco unix 8.0. When i run my application through my non-GUI screen {Now Caldera says it to be "virtual terminal" (vt01,vt02,....,vt12) insted of its old designations (tty01,tty02,...,tty12) } i can not see the boxdrawing characters as they should be. Insted it shows some garbge characters.

I have tried with different TERM setting (ansi, scoansi, ibm) but it dosen't worth me.

Is anybody here faced this problem?

your help will be appreciated

Regards
Bharat

 

[pcunix]

Yes, all the time.

The app itself may be at fault, or you may just need to look for other variations on ansi- for example, if this was originally OSR5 app, it may be expecting "ansi" to mean "scoansi" as it works on OSR5..

Look in /etc/termcap and /usr/lib/terminfo for various "scoansi" definitions- scoansi.old, .new etc may be there (I haven't seen Open Unix 8 yet so I'm not sure but things like that should be there). Also at386 sometimes is a keeper

Also see ttp://stage.caldera.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?109289 Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources

http://pcunix.com

tony@pcunix.com

 

[pcunix]

I can't believe I forgot to mention mapchan!

Seee the man page and

http://pcunix.com/SCOFAQ/scotec2.html#mapchan

but basically just try "mapchan -n" before running the app. Might be all you need.
Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources

http://pcunix.com

tony@pcunix.com