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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: K95 problem
Date: 21 Mar 1997 15:14:53 GMT
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In article <333285EB.2F54@rgw-express.de>,
Peter Eckhardt <dbadm@rgw-express.de> wrote:
: I have a strange problem with K95 on Windows 95. We access an AS400 via
: tn5250. On the client PC is K95 with that we log in to a SCO 3.2.4.2 box
: via sco ansi terminal emulation. That works very well with all apss we
: use. Except .... when we use tn5250 to log in to an AS400. On the login
: screen the input field is correctly highlighted but the terminal is one
: line too deep. Input is accepted normally only our users are irritated
: because the input is on the wrong position. All other screens work
: ok. Only the login to the AS400 ....
:
The first thing to check is whether you really are using SCOANSI emulation.
Recent releases of Kermit 95 (the current release being 1.1.11) support true
Telnet terminal-type negotiation, which has its good and bad sides. In this
case, the bad side wins because (would you believe) SCO operating systems do
not support a terminal type called SCOANSI. Well, it's a long story, and
you can read about it in your Kermit 95 BUGS.TXT file, item 253. The short
answer is: tell K95 to:
set terminal type scoansi
set telnet terminal-type ansi
before making the connection. This means "use SCOANSI emulation, but tell
the Telnet host that it's ANSI emulation". Strange but true... Notes:
1. At our suggestion, SCO has agreed to install an "SCOANSI" name in its
terminal-type database; this will happen in future SCO releases or
patches.
2. In a future release of K95, we'll add a "Telnet terminal-type" field
to the Dialer notebook entries.
3. The same thing happens with AT386 terminal type in UnixWare -- now
also an SCO product.
: K95 on NT4.0 with the same dialusr.dat works perfectly well. The above
: problem shows up only under Win95.
:
If my diagnosis is correct, then I'll bet you are using different releases
of K95 on Windows 95 and NT.
On the other hand, maybe we are grappling with a screen-dimensions issue here.
Remember, Windows 95 has a horrible bug that prevents us from using any
screen dimensions we want, but Windows NT does not have that bug. For the
gory details, see BUGS.TXT item 2.
If none of this helps, please collect a session log that demonstrates the
problem and send it in (uuencoded or somesuch) to kermit-support@columbia.edu.
-Frank