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SCO Openserver Precompiled Binaries

July 12, 2017 by Paulie Leave a Comment

I still work for customers on a daily basis that run their systems on SCO Openserver 5. I find myself using the same tools regularly and sometimes compile software to help me in the process.

For my own sake and hopefully to help others, I have built binaries to make it quicker for me to add them to systems that I am working on. I run a small VM that I used for compiling and testing. I’ve chosen the latest versions of software I can get to compile without major complications.

Unless otherwise stated the software has been compiled on SCO Openserver 5.0.6 with

  • Release Supplement 5.0.6A for OpenServer 5
  • Support Level Supplement (SLS) OSS646C
  • OpenServer 5.0.7 GNU Development Tools supplement
  • OpenServer Supplemental Graphics, Web and X11 Libraries supplement

Binaries for SCO Openserver 5

  • Bash 3.2.57 for SCO OpenServer 5 (includes patches for Shell Shock vulnerability)
  • rsync 3.1.2 for SCO OpenServer 5
  • GNU Tar 1.16.1 for SCO OpenServer 5
  • wget 1.10 for SCO OpenServer 5 (without SSL Support)
  • lzop v1.04 for SCO OpenServer 5 (Requires the rm command from GNU tools)

I will add more to the collection as and when I need them.

Filed Under: Scripts & Utilities Tagged With: SCO Openserver

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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