Running the Premvet client on Ubuntu Linux

PremVet is a veterinary practice management and clinical records computer system based on Unix, made by a Scottish company VetSolutions.

Running the Premvet client on Ubuntu is actually very simple and worked very well. I was using Ubuntu 8.10 with the Gnome desktop. All you have to do is:

• start the Terminal and enter
• run the following command telnet [ip-address] (where the ip-address is the IP address of the Premvet server)
• voila

It managed to draw the characters, including the lines that are used for graphics, right out of the box. There was only a couple of glitches. The bacspace did not work. To fix this it might be better to use a dedicated profile in terminal and change the setting for this profile by going to Edit - Profile Preferences. Click on the Compatibility tab and change the value for Backspace key generates from whatever it is (in my case it was ASCII DEL) to Control-H.

If you want to save yourself from extra typing you can create a launcher, but would somehow have to be able to set the profile for that launch. This is how you do it.

The only thing I could not get to work is the colours of the user interface.