FilePro from Linux xterm or other terminal?

[Bruce Easton]

On 7/28/10 3:23 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010, Walter Vaughan wrote:
>    
>> Bill Campbell wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> What do people do who want to run FilePro from Linux desktops?
>>> The xterm termcaps don't seem really workable with crazy colors
>>> and key support (or perhaps I don't know what I'm doing :-).
>>>
>>> I know that Ericom's PowerTerm is available for Linux.  Are there
>>> any other terminal programs what work well with FP?
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Putty works just fine. Use same settings you would for
>> windows client.
>>      
> Putty for Linux?  I had forgetten that was available.
>
> Not being a Windows user, I don't know what settings to use, but
> I can play with it a bit.
>
> Bill
>    
Bill,

I think one setting that I have always have had to have set for filepro 
is under 'Window', then 'Translation' in putty.  The top select box 
should be set to CP437.  I use Snow Leopard's default 'Terminal' app for 
connecting to various *nix boxes running filepro, and I think that 
setting in the Terminal app is called 'Latin-US (DOS)'  (or at least 
that seems to give similar behavior for fp needs).  There are some other 
tweaks I had to do for the mac terminal short-cuts that I made (like 
giving me back F9-F12 for fp use), but I don't think those have any 
correlation to putty.

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.