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I have one application that doesn't work with "scoansi"; how can I fix that?

It may use its own termcap or terminfo file, or it may just need to see the terminal as ansi. This trick might work if it has a shell script to start it, add this line to the top:

 [ "$TERM" = "scoansi" ] && TERM="ansi"
 

That changes TERM to ansi but only if it was set to "scoansi", so it won't affect wyse terminals, etc.

But it may also be that SCO changed the definition between releases - As of 5.0.6, you also change the console driver configuration with "mkdev scoansi".

You can configure the terminal types to revert to their former behavior, allowing remote logins to use the scoansi type for old behavior or scoansi-new for the new.

The options are:

Use new (5.0.6 and later) terminal database entries
Use old (pre 5.0.6) terminal database entries
Use new (5.0.6 and later) in-kernel scoansi emulator
Use old (pre 5.0.6) in-kernel scoansi emulator (backwards compatibility mode)

Before 5.0.6, "scoansi" and "ansi" were the same. In 5.0.6 and later, they are not.

You might fix this with "mapchan" also; see Graphical characters don't work

See My ANSI terminal emulator doesn't work correctly and Where can I get a Linux terminfo for "scoansi" or vice-versa ?.

See the article here on Termcap and Terminfo also.

Filepro: add " -m scoansi:ansi" to the tset line in .profile files.

Here is "ansi" from a working Filepro SCO 5.0.7 system:

ansic:CT:tc=ansi:
ln|ansi-nam|ansinam|Ansi standard crt without automargin:\
	:al=\E[L:bs:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[2J\E[H:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:co#80:\
	:dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:do=\E[B:bt=\E[Z:ei=:ho=\E[H:ic=\E[@:im=:li#25:\
	:nd=\E[C:pt:so=\E[7m:se=\E[m:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[m:up=\E[A:\
	:kb=^h:ku=\E[A:kd=\E[B:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:eo:sf=\E[S:sr=\E[T:\
	:GS=\E[12m:GE=\E[10m:GV=\63:GH=D:\
	:GC=E:GL=\64:GR=C:RT=^J:G1=?:G2=Z:G3=@:G4=Y:G5=;:G6=I:G7=H:G8=<:\
	:GU=A:GD=B:\
	:CW=\E[M:NU=\E[N:RF=\E[O:RC=\E[P:\
	:WL=\E[S:WR=\E[T:CL=\E[U:CR=\E[V:\
	:HM=\E[H:EN=\E[F:PU=\E[I:PD=\E[G:\
	:Gc=N:Gd=K:Gh=M:Gl=L:Gu=J:Gv=\072:


This is the filepro /app/fp/termcap for ansi

li|ansi|Ansi standard crt (Unix/Xenix 286/386 console):\
	:al=\E[L:am:bs:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[2J\E[H:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:co#80:\
	:dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:dn=\E[B:ei=:ho=\E[H:ic=\E[@:im=:li#25:\
	:nd=\E[C:ms:pt:so=\E[7m:se=\E[m:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[m:up=\E[A:\
	:kh=\E[H:kb=^h:ku=\E[A:kd=\E[B:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:eo:\
	:GS=\E[12m:GE=\E[10m:GV=\E[12m3:GH=D:\
	:G1=?:G2=Z:G3=@:G4=Y:GZ=~:\
	:GU=A:GD=B:GC=E:GR=C:GL=\E[12m4:RT=^J:\
	:L0=F1:L1=F2:L2=F3:L3=F4:L4=ESC ESC:L5=F5:\
	:L6=PgUp:L7=PgDn:L8=ShiftTAB:L9=TAB:LA=Ctrl-O:\
	:LB=F6:LC=Ctrl-L:LD=F7:\
	:LE=F8:LG=Ctrl-Z:LH=F9:LJ=F10:LY=Del:LZ=Enter:\
	:P0=\E[M:P1=\E[N:P2=\E[O:P3=\E[P:P4=\E\E:P5=\E[Q:P6=\E[I:\
	:P7=\E[G:P8=\E[Z:P9=^I:\
	:PA=^O:PB=\E[R:PC=^L:PD=\E[S:PE=\E[T:PG=^Z:PH=\E[U:PJ=\E[V:
 

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