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Where can I get a Linux terminfo for "scoansi" or vice-versa ?

If coming from SCO to Linux, you may find a scoansi-old and scoansi-new terminfo definition. Which one you would use depends upon whether you have "old" sco (pre 5.0.6) or not.

(Don't understand terminfo? See Termcap and Terminfo.)

Thomas E. Dickey offers this in ncurses 5.0 (See http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html).

Thomas gave me permission to extract the terminfo source and make it available here; you can just "tic" this on any Linux box if all you need is a better scoansi terminfo definition.

 # SCO console and SOS-Syscons console for 386bsd
 # (scoansi: had unknown capabilities
 #      :Gc=N:Gd=K:Gh=M:Gl=L:Gu=J:Gv=\072:\
 #      :GC=E:GD=B:GH=D:GL=\64:GU=A:GV=\63:GR=C:
 #      :G1=?:G2=Z:G3=@:G4=Y:G5=;:G6=I:G7=H:G8=<:\
 #      :CW=\E[M:NU=\E[N:RF=\E[O:RC=\E[P:\
 #      :WL=\E[S:WR=\E[T:CL=\E[U:CR=\E[V:\
 # I renamed GS/GE/HM/EN/PU/PD/RT and added klone+sgr-dumb, based
 # on the <smacs>=\E[12m  -- esr)
 #
 # klone+sgr-dumb is an error since the acsc does not match -TD
 #
 # In this description based on SCO's keyboard(HW) manpage list of default function key
 # values:
 #      F13-F24 are shifted F1-F12
 #      F25-F36 are control F1-F12
 #      F37-F48 are shift+control F1-F12
 scoansi|SCO Extended ANSI standard crt, 
        OTbs, am, eo, xon, 
        colors#8, cols#80, it#8, lines#25, pairs#64, 
        acsc=0[5566778899\:\:;;<<==>>FFGGHHIIJJKKLLMMNNOOPPQQRRSSTTUUVVWWXX`ja0fxgqh2jYk?lZm@nEqDtCu4vAwBx3~y, 
        blink=\E[5m, bold=\E[1m, cbt=\E[Z, clear=\E[H\E[2J, 
        cub1=\E[D, cud1=\E[B, cuf1=\E[C, cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, 
        cuu1=\E[A, dch1=\E[P, dl1=\E[M, ed=\E[J, el=\E[K, home=\E[H, 
        ht=^I, ich1=\E[@, il1=\E[L, ind=\E[S, invis=\E[8m, kbeg=\E[E, 
        kbs=^H, kcbt=\E[Z, kcub1=\E[D, kcud1=\E[B, kcuf1=\E[C, 
        kcuu1=\E[A, kend=\E[F, kf1=\E[M, kf10=\E[V, kf11=\E[W, 
        kf12=\E[X, kf13=\E[Y, kf15=\E[a, kf16=\E[b, kf17=\E[c, 
        kf18=\E[d, kf19=\E[e, kf2=\E[N, kf20=\E[f, kf21=\E[g, 
        kf22=\E[h, kf23=\E[i, kf24=\E[j, kf25=\E[k, kf26=\E[l, 
        kf27=\E[m, kf28=\E[n, kf29=\E[o, kf3=\E[O, kf30=\E[p, 
        kf31=\E[q, kf32=\E[r, kf33=\E[s, kf34=\E[t, kf35=\E[u, 
        kf36=\E[v, kf37=\E[w, kf38=\E[x, kf39=\E[y, kf4=\E[P, 
        kf40=\E[z, kf41=\E[@, kf42=\E[[, kf43=\E[\\, kf44=\E[], 
        kf45=\E[\^, kf46=\E[_, kf47=\E[`, kf48=\E[{, kf5=\E[Q, 
        kf6=\E[R, kf7=\E[S, kf8=\E[T, kf9=\E[U, khome=\E[H, 
        kich1=\E[L, knp=\E[G, kpp=\E[I, op=\E[37;40m, rev=\E[7m, 
        ri=\E[T, rmacs=\E[10m, rmso=\E[m, rmul=\E[m, 
        setab=\E[4%p1%dm, setaf=\E[3%p1%dm, 
        sgr=\E[0;10%?%p1%t;7%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p3%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p6%t;1%;%?%p7%t;8%;%?%p9%t;12%;m, 
        sgr0=\E[0;10m, smacs=\E[12m, smso=\E[7m, smul=\E[4m, 

Brian White offered this:

Here is what I installed on my sco box to allow me to work from my linux box.
It is still a work in progess, since I don't telnet from linux to sco that
often, but it's pretty good.

http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/terminfo-lnx-on-sco http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/termcap-lnx-on-sco http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/profile-lnx-on-sco

copy these to the sco box and run the following commands:

tic terminfo-lnx-on-sco
cat termcap-lnx-on-sco >>/etc/termcap
cat profile-lnx-on-sco >>/etc/profile

exit and log back in to see the effects.

Conversely, here are the equivalent snippets that I install on linux boxes
so I can telnet to them from sco boxes. This I do more often. (from scoansi
terminal emulators like facetwin actually)

http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/terminfo-sco-on-lnx http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/termcap-sco-on-lnx http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/profile-sco-on-lnx

Also see I've telnetted to a Linux machine from a SCO console, and the automatic colors for commands like ls and vi have made it impossible to see what I type.

Bruce Garlock sent this email:

A while ago, I asked you about linux to SCO terminal emulation, and
there really was not a good answer.  I see that it was one of the FAQ's
on your site, and I tried the various termcap files, etc...  I could
never get it working 100%, though.

I was just emailed a beta linux version of "Powerterm" from www.ericson.com. I am very impressed.
We use the Windows version of Powerterm, and the linux version is almost an 
exact copy.  All the F keys work, and the colors too!  I'm not sure if you 
would be interested in something like this, or not.

- Bruce

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