Secure Terminal Emulator for SCO

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Tue Feb 15 11:40:09 PST 2011


With neither thought nor caution, Jay Ashworth blurted:
> Note that "SCO" emulation came late in Putty (well after I asked
> Simon about it; he finally gave in under the weight of accumulated 
> requests, I think), and it amounts to ansi emulation, but with slightly
> modified Fkey defs and a DEL key that actually sends ASCII DEL (7f) instead
> of that mangled DEC DELC sequence that's useless as a SIGINT.
> 
> Older versions (pre 0.57, I *think*), didn't have SCO, and were harder
> to deal with.

I can verify that.  There did not used to be SCO support in PuTTY.

Why even -use- scoansi, though?  Just use something relatively sane like
xterm, which is what PuTTY is closest to anyway...  That's what I did.

mark->
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