Wyse-60 serial terminal

From: Phil (phileault_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 07/15/03 

Date: 15 Jul 2003 09:04:19 -0700

I have several dumb terminals running a program from a UNIX (SCO
Openserver R5) server. These terminals use a serial line connection
and Wyse-60 emulation to communicate with the server. I would like to
replace several of the terminals with Linux boxes (RedHat 9.0) but
can't figure out how to make it work ;-(

Using several Google searches, I found out that I could use a terminal
application called minicom. I configured minicom using the "-s"
switch to use serial port S0 (i.e COM1). I first started minicom as is
(with no switch) to see if I could at least end up with a UNIX prompt.
 It worked, so I then started minicom with "-t" switch (minicom -t
wy60), logged in the UNIX system but ended up with garbage all over
the screen and the only way to log the terminal out was to kill the
terminal on the UNIX server.

I can figure out with those tests that the wyse-60 used by both
systems (Linux and my UNIX application) are not the same (?). Again
using several Google searches, I found out that I could modify
something like "termcap" or "terminfo" so the two systems could "speak
the same language". I'm lost from there... I can't figure out which
of the two "term..." I have to modify since I don't know which one
minicom uses.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thnx in advance,

Phil

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