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.

If Term is installed to a directory other than the default /usr/term, you may get this error. In that case, set the TERMDIR environment variable to point to the TERM install directory. For example, if TERM is installed to /var/term, add the following two lines to your .profile:

TERMDIR=/var/term
export TERMDIR

Using Term for Linux version 6.2.5b, the screen does not format properly in all cases. If the display is not right, execute the following two commands at a shell prompt. You may also want to put them into your .profile:

termcap=/etc/termcap
export termcap

CR 472, not needed in TERM 6.28

Using TERM for UNIX, you may see a locked device error when connecting to a tty port. The port permissions are usually reset to 600 (-rw——-) when this happens, even if you’ve changed it to 666 (-rw-rw-rw-).

The following is a sample script. It will not execute on all UNIX systems. You will need to adjust it for your particular flavor of UNIX. It will resolve the inability of callin and callout being unable to enable and disable ports that use port monitors.

1. Place the script in /usr/bin.
2. Do a chmod 777 to make it executable and accessible to all users.

The script is very simple. It disables the port, makes it accessible to TERM, starts TERM, then re-enables the port after TERM exits.

/usr/sbin/pmadm -d -pttymon0 -s00
sleep5
chmod 0666/dev/term/00
term
/usr/sbin/pmadm -e -pttymon0 -s00


Please note: This script is from Unisys U6000 SVR4 UNIX. Other flavors of UNIX will have commands that do the same thing, but the syntax will be different.

CR 572

Using TERM for UNIX 6.2.5 on SCO Openserver 5, trying to run a script which dials the modem to make the connection may cause the modem to repeatedly redial the modem before doing the initialization string. To resolve this, increase the DTIMEOUT value, or insert a DINIT command with the correct initialization string prior to the CALL command.

Some versions of TERM for UNIX, particularly prior to version 6.2.5b, can only read and write file names up to 14 characters long. This affects scripts, file transfer, log files, etc. The solution is to upgrade your version of TERM.

At this writing, TERM for AIX still exhibits the problem. The most current versions of TERM for all other operating systems do not have this restriction.

CR 70