[Solved]telnet, terminals and IBM AIX V5L

bugg_tb · Last edited by bugg_tb on Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:09 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi guys

The job I do currently involves me telnetting into a IBM AIX machine which according to the windows telnet software we use, uses SCO ANSI.

I have read various posts that involve setting the TERM variable to ansi which can sort the problems out but it hasn't worked for me.

My problems are 2 fold, the program we login to is called MFour and it sucks, anyway its got a menu system thats remarkably unintuitive and to scroll back I need to press F4 which the machine doesn't seem to see as F4 and it doesn't go back, also the system's menus have a scroll bar thats supposed to highlight which menu item it is on but this in invisible in the terminal, although I still know where it is, both these features work fine in TunEmul in windows and I never had the F4 problem on SUSE. Any ideas fellas??

Cheers

Tom
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alex.blackbit · Advocate Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2397

now... to get you right, what you want to do works with windows+tunemul and suse+??? but it does not with gentoo+???, right?
please tell us which applications you use on suse and gentoo.
just as a little hint... you can try several on gentoo... netkit-telnet, telnet-bsd, putty.

bugg_tb · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:43 pm Post subject:

sorry I'll clarify,
With windows it all works fine without any problems.

Suse and Konsole works fine apart from the menu bar graphics glitches, ie F4 to move up a level worked.

Gentoo just doesn't work, I have one admission to make and that is my console keyboard layout is set to US but in X its GB and neither work. F4 is clearly an issue as I can go backwards, but I would like to sort out the graphics problems as I does make work harder....
Gentoo, I've tried the basic console(bash) and Xterm and Aterm in X but neither work, I've got netkit-telnet installed and I tried putty in Suse and it made no difference(although I didn't play around too much with the settings)

Tom

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Sorry I've made another slight faux pas, the after more digging around the system is WYSE60?? If that makes any sense

Tom
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bugg_tb · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:09 pm Post subject:

Solved my own problem again after some more searching, after finding out it was WYSE I downloaded WY60 which works a treat.

Tom
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