Re: OSR6 Console emulation woes

From: dsSDF AEW (SLEELS_at_DD.COM)
Date: 09/30/05 

Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:35:56 -0400

Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
> dsSDF AEW typed (on Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 05:56:57PM -0400):
> | Hello everyone,
> |
> | As we all know by now, OSR6 went and changed the emulation at the
> | console in OSR6. We lost our scoansi.
> |
> | We also lost our ability to print line draw graphics characters. I have
> | a client runnning a filepro app. The app was about 50% usable with the
> | AT386-ie emulation so we set the TERM variable to ansi.
> |
> | Things improved quite a bit however we still get the foreign diacritical
> | chars where nice lines are supposed to appear. On 5.0.x we always did a
> | mapchan -n to fix this, which no longer works.
> |
>
> I just installed OSR 6.O.O on a new machine yesterday, followed by
> filePro 5.0.14D4. FilePro works perfectly well on the console virtual
> terminals, and it works fine in X Window, and it works fine when
> connected from outside using telent or ssh.
>
> I the case of X or anincom ing TCP connection, scoansi is used just as
> it ever was.
>

Was 5.0.14D4 released after OSR6? Perhaps it now supports the AT386-ie
emulation better?

Please advise.
-D