Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:08:31 +0100 From: Stefano Riva <sriva@alice.it> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Console and TERMCAP Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990322120831.00a853a0@relay.alice.it>
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I'm porting an old application from SCO to FreeBSD (recompiling everything, not using iBCS2 emulation) and I'm experiencing a problem with sc0 - standard terminal cons25. The application has a color ANSI display, but on the FreeBSD console I can't see colors nor line-drawing characters (they're used to draw windows and menus borders): the display works, but in b&w and with chars like D, 3, Z and Y instead of lines. The strange thing is that the background of the screen is correctly filled with square-dotted (I don't know the english name for PC IBM 437 code page 0xB2 extended char) chars, so the problem isn't really that I don't get extended chars. When I'm telnetted in from a Windows PC using Netterm, I see the line-drawing chars but always in b&w. Of course I tried to setup TERM vars to "ansi" instead of "cons25". Nothing changes. I tried to use the SCO-ANSI entry of a SCO OpenServer 5 TERMCAP in the FreeBSD's TERMCAP. Nothing changes. I tried a bunch of other things. Nothing. I'm looking for ideas and/or detailed material about the FreeBSD's console, especially related with similarities/differences with SCO console (in kernel configuration files, sc0 has the comment "resembling an SCO console"). --- Stefano Riva Software Engineer - System Administrator Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl Phone +39-027528400, Fax +39-027528451 Email sriva@alice.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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