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Correct putty settings for use with SCO Openserver 5.0.7

April 24, 2015 by Paulie 4 Comments

After so long since it was it was in mainstream use I am still doing regular work for customers with SCO Openserver, gradually they are all coming off the platform, but while it is still in use it’s nice to have the best possible experience.

A lot of the time if I am in a rush I will just use the Windows telnet client to connect to SCO Servers but really putty is so much nicer and you only need to change a few settings to get great compatibility with SCO.

Specific settings for using Putty as a Telnet client with SCO

Keyboard settings

Change your keyboard settings to:

Backspace Key sends Control-H
The Function keys and keypad set to SCO

Correct keyboard settings for using putty with SCO

Window Settings

Change the remote character set to ISO-8859-2: 1999 (Latin-4, North Europe).

Terminal Type

Set your TERM environment variable to xterm and you should have a decent looking display and emulation when using SCO.

SCOadmin with correct terminal settings

Personally I sometimes like to have a 132 column width display which you can easily do by setting the terminal type to ansi-w in SCO and then changing the number of columns in putty to match.

Filed Under: Technical Posts Tagged With: SCO Openserver

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Comments

  1. JamieT says

    July 18, 2016 at 8:31 pm

    Wow, SCO Unix…Brings back some memories..:-)

  2. Abu Zaid says

    December 31, 2021 at 7:44 pm

    Very helpful. I have been using Putty for a longtime, but never tried “ISO-8859-2: 1999”. Had to use 3rd party paid emulators to map Function Keys and Screen ANSI Graphics.

  3. Paulie says

    December 31, 2021 at 7:49 pm

    Glad it is useful!

  4. Armando Graniel Roman says

    March 15, 2022 at 11:39 pm

    Keyboard keys and keypad: SCO
    remote character: CP437
    TERM enviroment: ansi

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