terminal emulation ansi scoansi 5.0.6 sco osr5

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From: "Paulo Couceiro" <paulo.couceiro@cil.pt>
References: <3C390869.5E79B513@tkg.ca> <xOH_7.10672$7E1.64920676@newsserver.ip.pt> <3C3B9CDD.E9C01F98@tkg.ca> 
Subject: Re: Console scoansi emulation problem
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:04:57 -0000

I've found a reference at
http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/ta.pl?112082
http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/ta.pl?109521
Hope this helps

"Mike Brown" <mike@tkg.ca> wrote in message news:3C3B9CDD.E9C01F98@tkg.ca...
> Paulo Couceiro wrote:
> >
> > Go to Hardware/Kernel Manager
> > Terminal Emulation Control
> > Choose 4. Use old (pre 5.0.6) in-kernel scoansi emulator
> > Relink the kernel
> >
> > That should do the trick
> >
> > "Mike Brown" <mike@tkg.ca> wrote in message
news:3C390869.5E79B513@tkg.ca...
> > > After a 5.0.5 to 5.0.6 upgrade a small problem turned up.
> > > The console emulation works differently, in all "mkdev scoansi"
> > > modes.  It looks like the application is missing a CR-LF on a
> > > couple of screens, which causes the last character of the line
> > > to be over written by every character of what should be the
> > > next line.  From a PC, termlite and TinyTerm are doing a
> > > "autowrap", as is the terminal window from the X screen,
> > > so everything looks fine. Only the text screens fail
> > > ( scoansi, scoansi-old, ansi ... ).
> > >
> > > It is obvious that the real fault is in the application,
> > > but is there a way to modify the console emulation?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > --
> > > Michael Brown
> > >
> > > The Kingsway Group
>
> The PRE 5.0.6 emulation does seem to be different, but
> does not fix this one issue.  The application fails in
> all combinations of old/new emulation and old/new terminfo.
>
> It looks like the same machine running 5.0.5 works fine,
> so the PRE 5.0.6 emulation is different from 5.0.5 in this
> one case
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
> --
> Michael Brown
>
> The Kingsway Group
>

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