At 4:20 PM +0100 6/3/2005, M.Cressey wrote:
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>I use a PC to access our Solaris box which has Ingres installed.
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>What¹s the best terminal emulation software to use? Is there any decent free software?

PuTTY works fine. I personally use either CRT (with the vt102 emulation)
or PuTTY. Both work pretty well with TERM_INGRES=vt100f.
These two aren't the only options by any means.
Pretty much any terminal emulator that does a reasonably accurate
vt100-ish emulation will work.

If you don't like the vt100f style function key mappings, then you're
more on your own. Lots of emulators will do vt2xx but the keyboard is
different. Unless you need something specific, I'd stick with vt100f.

xterm-like emulators usually work fine from a display standpoint,
but I never know what I'm going to get in terms of function keys.

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>I¹m sure I¹ve seen ISQL in colour when I was on a course at CA a few years back, how was this achieved?

It was probably a color xterm emulation. Or at least, some sort of
emulator that understands the ANSI color control sequences.
It might also have been the "ibmpc" direct screen write emulation from
a windows command prompt, which does some color stuff.

I'd have to check the manual (it's been a long time), but I think that
any TERM_INGRES setting that has ya, yb, etc definitions in the
Ingres termcap entry will do color.

Karl