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Subject: Re: Linux problems: Any ideas? (OT)

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 18:38:23 04/25/02

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On April 25, 2002 at 21:03:35, Allen Lake wrote:

>On April 25, 2002 at 20:37:23, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>However, the telnet program I am using wants to use scoansi for emulation.
>>Pretty simple, eh?  Whenever I type 'TERM=scoansi' it core dumps and I am
>>brought back to a login.  If I type 'TERM=ansi' or 'TERM=vt100' everything is
>>fine.  Seems the problem is with scoansi.
>
>Did a quick Google search for "termcap linux scoansi" and found the following
>link:
>
>     http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/
>
>Look near the bottom of the page for the "SCO-LINUX Terminal/Shell compatibility
>pack" section.  You probably need to add a scoansi entry to /etc/termcap or an
>update to terminfo.  Don't know which since I haven't played around with RH 7.2.
>
>Hope this helps!

Outstanding!

There is a scoansi entry in termcap, and scoansi is a valid emulation looking
through the thousands that come with RH 7.1.

However, it looks like these might help!  Thanks again!



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