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SCO Ansi application on Linux

From: dowagiac_2000@yahoo.com (Matt Lewis)
Subject: Howto get a Linux System Console setup perfect for SCOANSI
Date: 7 Jun 2003 11:58:30 -0700

Keywords: OSAS, Open Systems Accounting Software, SCOANSI, Terminal
Emulation

I have finally found the perfect combination of commands that gets a
linux console to work perfectly with a SCOANSI app that needs line
drawing and how to re-map the keyboard etc...

Here it is.  

Open a system console on linux.  Not Konsole or Gterminal or xterm.
You must be in a system console.  If you are still in X windows then
you are not in a system console.  Konsole and Gterminal / xterm work
alot differently.

As root

# consolechars -m cp437
# loadkeys es-cp850
# tput smpch

What this does

Forces the console to use codepage 437 for mapping
Forces keyboard mapping of codepage 850
Forces the use of the correct line drawing characters.

If anyone out their knows how to do exactly the above in Konsole.  Or
has gotten a SCOANSI application especially (OSAS) that requires cp437
and line drawing etc  working in some other fashion please post.

Tested on Redhat 8.0 and Mandrake 9.1

--Matt

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