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telnet linux to sco terminal emulation tic

Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 13:31:54 +1200
From: Greg M Lee <greg@ncs.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Telnet from Linux to SCO OpenServer 5.0.6
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Cristian Veronesi wrote:
> 
> Greg M Lee wrote:
> 
> >   You can similarly copy the termcap entry and prepend/append to
> >   /etc/termacp on the SCO box.
> >
> >   When telnetting from linux to SCO set terminal type to linux ie
> >   # TERM=linux export TERM
> >
> > You should be able to do similar things for gui terlnet sessions also
> 
> Why this doesn't work for me?
> 
> I appended the output of the linux command infocmp -I (from an xterm
> session) to /etc/termcap in my SCO box that way:
> 
> #
> # Linux Xterm (Cristian)
> #
> xl|xtermlin|xterm terminal emulator (Linux):\
>          am, bce, xenl, km, mir, msgr, mc5i,
>          cols#80, it#8, lines#24, colors#8, pairs#64,
>          acsc=``aaffggiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~,
>          cbt=\E[Z, bel=^G, cr=^M, csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr, tbc=\E[3g,
>          clear=\E[H\E[2J, el1=\E[1K, el=\E[K, ed=\E[J,
>          hpa=\E[%i%p1%dG, cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cud1=^J,
>          home=\E[H, civis=\E[?25l, cub1=^H, cnorm=\E[?25h,
> [etc]
> 
> But, when I telnet from the Linux box to the SCO box this is what it
> happens:
> 
> 209$ TERM=xtermlin; export TERM
> 210$ vi x
> xtermlin: Unknown terminal type
> I don't know what kind of terminal you are on - all I have is 'xtermlin'.
> [Using open mode]
> 
> What was my mistake?

Actually two :-(
  infocmp -C  is what you should have used for a termcap entry, and the
file from infocmp -I you should have run tic on as root to update the
terminfo database. i.e.
  [Linux]% infocmp -I >xtermlin.src
  [Linux]% infocmp -C >xtermlin.cap
  transfer to SCO
  [SCO]# tic xtermlin.src
  [SCO]# cat xtermlin.cap >>/etc/termcap

Cheers
-Greg
 

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