Re: Has anyone else suffered Ubuntu fever?


The app on my SCO OpenServer requires me to emulate the SCO Ansi
console with the TERM=ansi for the app to work correctley.

Then the app is broken and most apps are really not that broken.
Even way old legacy apps by small software houses who didn't know better
themselves, the app is probably terminal agnostic via that language the app
is written in.

It is an almost non-trivial project to take a linux console and hack it to
act enough like scoansi to be useful, and has an unpredictable number of
trivial and non-trivial ramifications in other places, and will never be
fully good no matter what. The linux console is a terminal. It is somewhat
configurable and hackable, but is still a terminal not a terminal
_emulator_. But that's just the console. More often you'll probably use some
form of xterm. The amount of configurability and method of configuring the
various xterm-alikes is different for each xterm-like app. The main gnu and
kde ones do have linux console emulation modes built-in for convenience,
which would be a quick answer if you weren't trying to do this backwards.
Set up linux support on the sco box and then the console, gnome-term and
kde-term could all work using "linux" mode.

If the app _really_ needs scoansi, the simplest answer is just forget using
the console on the clients. Also forget using any of the normal xterm-alike
progams on the cleints. Just use a terminal emulator like putty or century
term etc that can emulate scoansi. I think now there are even one or two
more emulators for linux besides those, but putty is free and has enough
options to emulate scoansi pretty well. It's a starting point and if you
need to switch to a commercial emulator you can.

Or, if you are using these as thin clients, if you want to use the console
on the client, look into ThinBSD. It's a freebsd based thin client, and
freebsd's native console is very scoansi-like. You may be able to get away
with doing nothing more than re-writing TERM= in /etc/profile on the sco
box.
[ "$TERM" = "cons25" ] && TERM=ansi

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