Is there a screen or tmux like util for sco 6.0?
Did someone complies screen succesfully?
Not to my knowledge. There have been multiport serial cards that had tmux built in, but I don't think any are available. Unless you are using a serial connection, you can just log in using putty, or whatever as many times as you like, until you reach the user license limit. Old tmux connections still used a user license for each session if you are thinking that tmux will bypass the licensing.
If you have the OpenServer 6 development system installed (gcc, make, ncurses), there is a good chance of compiling screen with minor fixes.
Did you try it?
What development environment do you have on the OSR6 box now?
- native SCO cc
- gcc 3.x
- gcc 4.x
- Xinuos open source packages
Have you compiled other binaries on your SCO host?
I downloaded the current version screen-5.0.1, and ran configure using the gcc 7.3.0, which is the latest version available for SCO, and so far the only error I have is "openpty()" not available.
I did a little more reading, and 'screen' is available on all releases of Openserver. However, its use appears to be restricted to the system console, which can be the system video console, or COM1, as defined at boot time.
It is the process that provides multiscreen support (tty01 thru tty12) at the designated console.
$man screen
Sun River terminals used this in their driver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunRiver_Data_Systems