Newbie Question

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Newbie Question
started by: apoc.feuer

Posted by apoc.feuer on June 09 2005,07:33

Dear all,

Would need some advise/suggestion/assistance out there. It's like this: I'm recycling some of the old Pentium One pcs to be installed with DSL, (Well, I'm suprised that DSL could work well in Pentium One PCs, it's really a pleasant suprise) these pcs will act as dumb terminals in my company for our in-house erp system (Our erp system is running on unix)

Previously in Window$, I would have used hyperterminal to access to our unix server and the user would do their data entry etc etc, so I was wondering is there a similar hyperterminal applications for DSL so that I can use these pcs installed with DSL to access to our erp system via hyperterminal?

Any advise/suggestion/assistance would be greatly appreciated

Posted by cbagger01 on June 09 2005,16:28

Apps -> Net -> Microcom

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on June 09 2005,17:19

Hyperterminal is just a telnet frontend.

Either microcom or just plain old telnet should work.

Posted by ke4nt1 on June 09 2005,19:34

Minicom is another good telnet-type comm program.

Use " apt-get install minicom " .. it is a small download.

I like it better than microcom...

73
ke4nt

Posted by apoc.feuer on June 10 2005,05:49

Thanks for the advise guys, well I did try to use the mircocom but I don't how to use it, I took up the courage to use telnet instead, simple and can get the job done, once again thank you so much...

Posted by slotjunky on June 17 2005,21:09

Like the OP, I too want to use dSL as a "dumb terminal" replacement. Unfortunately, the available telnet program and
"linux" TERM is not compatible with RealWorld Accounting.

I downloaded wy60-2.0.8-tar.gz and installed the gcc.dsl
compiler. After running ./configure and then make, I get the
following error:

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -DETCDIR="\"/usr/local/etc\"" -g -O2 -c wy60.c
wy60.c: In function `wy60_setupterm':
wy60.c:1336: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
wy60.c: In function `putCapability':
wy60.c:2354: error: `tputs' undeclared (first use in this function)
wy60.c:2354: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
wy60.c:2354: error: for each function it appears in.)
make: *** [wy60.o] Error 1
~

From the developer's home page: "Emulate setupterm(), reset_shell_mode(), and tparm() if <term.h> could not be found. As long as <curses.h> defines tgetent(), tgetflag(), tgetstr(), and tputs() we can emulate the rest."

So it looks like term.h is missing from DSL Any suggestions
as to where I can find term.h for DSL?