Re: Howto get a Linux System Console setup perfect for SCOANSI

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Date: 7 Jun 2003 16:13:50 -0400

Matt Lewis typed (on Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 11:58:30AM -0700):
| Keywords: OSAS, Open Systems Accounting Software, SCOANSI, Terminal
| Emulation
|
| I have finally found the perfect combination of commands that gets a
| linux console to work perfectly with a SCOANSI app that needs line
| drawing and how to re-map the keyboard etc...
|
| Here it is.
|
| Open a system console on linux. Not Konsole or Gterminal or xterm.
| You must be in a system console. If you are still in X windows then
| you are not in a system console. Konsole and Gterminal / xterm work
| alot differently.
|
| As root
|
| # consolechars -m cp437
| # loadkeys es-cp850
| # tput smpch
|
| What this does
|
| Forces the console to use codepage 437 for mapping
| Forces keyboard mapping of codepage 850
| Forces the use of the correct line drawing characters.
|
| If anyone out their knows how to do exactly the above in Konsole. Or
| has gotten a SCOANSI application especially (OSAS) that requires cp437
| and line drawing etc working in some other fashion please post.
|
| Tested on Redhat 8.0 and Mandrake 9.1

¡Muy interesante!

A colleague and I have been replacing dying Wyse terminals with Windows
machines to enable people to access OSR 5.0[56] machines. Installing
Anzio Lite on the Windows boxes works perfectly for accessing the
filePro applications, and we also can have printers hanging off the
Windows boxen that VisionFS can address from OSR 5.

But we have found a cheaper solution: machines available solely online
from www.walmart.com (not in their stores). They cost $200, with CD-ROM,
no floppy, 10Mb drive, 128Mb RAM, ethernet, and come with pre-installed
Lindows (a Debian distribution of linux). We can add 15"" LCD monitors
for $250.

Lindows starts up and takes you to KDE, auto-logged in as root (no
password, as shipped). I had to change a few files to get the virtual
consoles to be enabled, and then in the /etc/skel/.bashrc, I made
these additions so that operators don't have to learn to type ^C when
they're used to the Delete key, and so that the BackSpace key actually
backspaces:

        loadkeys <<JPR
        keycode 14 = BackSpace
        keycode 111 = Delete
        JPR
        stty erase '^H'
        stty intr '^?'

With a linux entry in the filePro termcap file, line-drawing (and color
if desired) work perfectly. I didn't run into any need to change
codesets.

The Lindows boxes run samba from the git-go, and display a network
ghetto with no Windows machines present: just the Lindows and OSR 5
machines. So again VisionFS can print to the Lindows printers (though
I'm sure I could just as readily ditch VisionFS and use remote printing
to port 515).

PS: update: Just checked www.walmart.com. The same computer is now
$199.98, but without the OS. Oh, well... :-)

-- 
JP

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