Secure Terminal Emulator for SCO

[Brian K. White]

On 2/14/2011 3:55 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ---- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kenneth Brody"<kenbrody at spamcop.net>
>
>> I use PuTTY with filePro without any problems. On SCO, simply set
>> PuTTY to SCO emulation, and TERM to "ansi".
>
> 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.

The version I put together here is pre loaded for sco ansi and the 
colors are pre loaded to emulate the pallet FacetWin uses. Mostly the 
cyan and a few other colors are dimmer so they are more useful as 
background and most apps look less cartoony.

I can't recommend Anzio highly enough though. It happens to be my 
personal goal to keep working towards an actually useful fully open 
source solution, purely as a matter of choice. But that has no 
significant bearing on how worthwhile Anzio is. The scanning support in 
mine for example still can only scan a single sheet at a time and it 
produces a huge uncompressed bitmap which must be post processed with 
some external util and scripting glue before it's even slightly useful.
(Or, buy a scanning library one time which this code is already ready to 
use. Your users never have to buy anything just you do and only once.)

But the core terminal is good. The portability and auto-launchability of 
the config files and the printing and scoansi support are all good 
enough to give to paying customers and provide them with a painless, 
brainless, 2-click install-and-go solution. One of the main points of 
this version was in fact to remove the annoyances of configuring putty 
into portable, emailable, clickable, config files that contain all the 
required config so you not only only have to figure it out once, you 
don't even need to do that, since I put sample configs up on the site 
already.

http://code.google.com/p/aljex-client/
Secifically:
http://code.google.com/p/aljex-client/downloads/detail?name=Install%20Aljex%20Client%20OSE%207.5.3.0000.exe
and
http://code.google.com/p/aljex-client/downloads/detail?name=_template_SCO%20Open%20Server.at

Though you don't even really need the template config file in this case 
because the compiled-in defaults happen to be all set for sco ansi 
already. (only in this version, not in stock putty)

After installing that installer, you could just go to any start->run 
prompt, cmd prompt, or internet explorer address bar and type

"at:your.server.address"

and it will pop up putty and ssh to the specified ip or hostname in sco 
ansi emulation. Or you can take one of those config files and email it 
to an end user, or put it on a web page and, and putty will launch all 
pre-set correctly just by clicking on it. Can't get much easier than that.

But like I said, Anzio is probably my favorite terminal emulator for 
about a hundred reasons both for developer/admin usage and for end-user 
usage, which are two very different sets of needs and priorities. I have 
used many terminal emulators and spend much time digging in and seeing 
just what I could get out of all of them, not just barely used them. The 
end result is I usually use my enhanced putty now that it supports 
serial as well as telnet & ssh, because I believe in the long term value 
of using and contributing towards open source software. And AnzioLite or 
AnzioWin if I need any of the zillion special features they provide. You 
can do integration tricks that simply nothing else even comes close. If 
you want to make a polished product right now rather than develop a lot 
of low level stuff yourself over time, Anzio all the way.

-- 
bkw