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Glenn Pegden wrote:

> One of our sites has has several PCs running SCO Unix, with a mixture of 
> monitor types (most are WYSE, but of differing specs), Unix termcap allowed 
> everything to work fine.
> 
> The problems started when we installed a DEC Alpha running OpenVMS, we got it
> talking to the Unixboxes via UCX (DECs version of TCP/IP). Unfortunately 
> the software that we are running on the Alpha has been hard coded to support 
> VT300 series terminals. This means that the VT terminals we have work on both 
> the UNIX boxes and the Alpha, as do the higher spec WYSE terminal (these have 
> a VT emulation mode), but the lower spec WYSE terminals and the PCs wont work
> (the PCs running UNIX that is, we have all the DOS based PCs working fine)
> 
> The Alpha will only ever be telneted to from the Unix box, so I wonderd if it
> is therfore possible on either the Alpha or the Unix boxes to 'convert' VT
> escape code sequences to something that the WYSE (and PCs) support (ie ansi) 

A program exists which might help solve this problem.  It's called
"screen" (possibly "GNU screen").  Its main purpose is to provide
multiple sessions on a single ACSII terminal.  Part of how it implements
that is to provide a virtual VT220 (or so) emulation.  If your
applications aren't really VT3xx-specific, they'd probably work under
screen.

I'll send a list of SCO binaries FTP sites under separate cover.  I know
a compiled "screen" is out there, but I'm not sure where, so you'll have
to search a bit.  (Try ftp.celestial.com first).  If you want to start
from source, it's somewhere out there -- try the usual UNIX sources
sites.  I don't know how difficult it would be to build.

>Bela<