Sco 3.2 and PuTTY


 
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Old 12-14-2018
Sco 3.2 and PuTTY

Is there anyway to the function keys to work on PuTTY when remoting into a SCO 3.2 server?
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Old 12-14-2018
According to this reference:

Chapter 4: Configuring PuTTY | PuTTY User Manual (putty-0.68-manual)

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In SCO mode, the function keys F1 to F12 generate ESC [M through to ESC [X. Together with shift, they generate ESC [Y through to ESC [j. With control they generate ESC [k through to ESC [v, and with shift and control together they generate ESC [w through to ESC [{.

If you don't know what any of this means, you probably don't need to fiddle with it.
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Old 12-14-2018
Generally, function keys behave in the manner determined by the terminal type set, e.g. VT100 or whatever.

The important thing is to ensure that the terminal type that SCO thinks it has connected, set by the TERM variable, agrees exactly with the terminal type that PuTTY is set to emulate.
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Old 12-14-2018
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Originally Posted by Neo
According to this reference:

.... Chapter 4: Configuring PuTTY | PuTTY User Manual (putty-0.68-manual)...
I guess that's where my problem is. I need to know...

I have pcs running Windows XP and QvtTerm, which works fine, but I need to upgrade away from those pcs and QvtTerm won't run on Win 7 nor 10.
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Old 12-14-2018
Otherwise, the keys on the keyboard won't map correctly to the keys that the O/S is expecting.
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Old 12-14-2018
Set the host terminal type to scoansi and set the putty function keys to sco and the backspace to ctrl h. Set the terminal to 25 lines. I generally set the scrollback to zero.
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Old 12-14-2018
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Originally Posted by jgt
Set the host terminal type to scoansi and set the putty function keys to sco and the backspace to ctrl h. Set the terminal to 25 lines. I generally set the scrollback to zero.
Let me try that right now

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terminal to 25 lines
do you mean rows???

--- Post updated at 05:12 PM ---

And to add more, I have an old application titled DCPA(Data Capture Processing Application). And it is in this software that I rely on the function keys.
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