Using TERM for UNIX to communicate from the SCO console to another SCO system, neither ANSI or SCOANSI emulations reproduce the remote host colors. In this case, use the TTY emulation for console-to-console communications. This is strictly a pass-through emulation and will reproduce the colors properly.

Using TinyTERM 4.02, the SCOANSI emulation seems to be blurry, fuzzy and not as clear as it was in older version of Tiny Term. This is a known issue, corrected in TinyTERM 4.03. There is no patch.

In some cases, TinyTERM 4.20 will not properly display colors. To fix that, apply this patch.

To use it, locate the existing CenTE.ocx file in C:\Program Files\Century\TinyTERM. Rename that as a backup, then copy the patch into the same directory. The next time you start TinyTERM, it will be in effect.

CR 494, fixed in TinyTERM 4.31

TinyTERM 4.40 added an Extra Printers option to the File menu. With that capability, if you’re using SCOANSI emulation, you can select between up to six printers. Wyse60 allows up to three printers. No other emulation can take advantage of these for transparent printing.

Printer number 1 is still configured through the Printer Setup option on TinyTERM’s File menu. Printers 2 through 6 are configured through the Extra Printers submenu.

In either emulation, it’s based on the “print on” sequence sent by the host. The default “print on” sequences for each, the one used by TinyTERM’s File | Print Setup settings, are listed below. <Esc> is the escape character, ASCII 27:

SCOANSI: <Esc>[5i
Wyse60: <Esc>d0#

To access the extra printers, add two for each to the SCOANSI “print on” code:

Printer 2: <Esc>[7i
Printer 3: <Esc>[9i
etc.

For Wyse60, only the first two extra printers are available, making three total. For each of those, just add one to the “print on” code:

Printer 2: <Esc>d1#
Printer 3: <Esc>d2#

You can then use <Esc>d# to access the current printer in Wyse60, using the digit again only if you need to change the printer. If you haven’t selected a printer yet using any of the “print on” codes listed above, <Esc>d# will automatically select printer 1 as the default printer.

Regardless of which printer you use, the “print off” sequence is the same, based on the emulation:

SCOANSI: <Esc>[4i
Wyse60: ^T

That’s Ctrl-T, ASCII value 20, for Wyse60.

Each printer can have different settings, of course. So the host can select between multiple printers, or one printer with multiple settings.

CR 210, Wyse60
CR 580, SCOANSI

TinyTERM 4.13 has some color display bugs. To fix them, apply this patch.

Download the file to C:\Program Files\Century\TinyTERM. In that same folder, locate the existing CenTE.ocx file. Rename it as a backup. Rename the patch file to CenTE.ocx. The next time you start TinyTERM, it will be in effect.

CR 175, fixed in TinyTERM 4.20.

Using SCOANSI emulation, Medical Manager menu items should highlight as you use the arrow keys. When they don’t, it means there’s a setting in Medical Manager that needs to be changed. To get to it, go to a command prompt and type:

install su

Accept the default path when offered, then say no to changing terminal characteristics. Login to Medical Manager normally after that.

From the resulting menu, select option 1. Type “n” once to go to the next page. At the top of the screen there’s a “Color Init” line. In that line, change the number 49 to 48. Save the changes and exit. The next time you start Medical Manager, the color highlights will work properly.

CR 642

When using SCOANSI, AT386 or other ANSI-series emulations, screens that should have lines or boxes drawn may not. Or the lines may draw as letters instead.

To fix that, open the Session Properties and go to the Code Page tab. Click the Advanced button. The top two lines of that dialog are SCOANSI alternate character sets. Set both to “STD 437 MS-DOS Latin US”. That should correct the line draw problem.

You can also go to the Attributes tab and check the “Use Non-Font Based line draw characters” option. This will use Windows graphics instead of text characters to draw the lines.

Restoring the code pages to the alternate character sets will also fix character alignment problems. For example, if the screen goes out of alignment when you minimize TinyTERM, check the SCOANSI alternate character sets.

CR 281, default.tpx
CR 360, added to all included .tpx files