[Info-vax] X-terminals again

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <ef7eec66-c965-4575-be5e-531f51cb0694 at r32g2000vba.googlegroups.com>,
	tadamsmar <tadamsmar at yahoo.com> writes:
> 

Finally, the answers appear!!

> I have a VMS workstation.  I have 3 old X-terminals on the ethernet
> that are used to run an app on the VMS workstation.  The X-terminals
> are very user-friendly, you just power them up and they display the
> login display from VMS.  The users need a friendly system.
> But the X-terminal are no longer supported by Tektronics.  When they
> die, there is probably no way to replace them.

That is a more a matter of money than technology.  X-terminals are
still manufactured and sold.

> I need a replacement for these 3 X-terminals, just as user-friendly.
> We have some PCs that I can use if I can ever figure out what software
> the use on the PCs 

If you are talking about PC's that will be dedicated to this task as
opposed to being on someones desk this problem becomes fairly easy
and cheap to solve.  There is free, Linux based Thin Client software
that supports X as well as Windows.  Actually it can be set up with
a menu to do both, but that isn't what you need anyway. :-)  It's
called ThinStation.  It could be set up to do exactly what you are
doing now with the real X-terminals.  And probably deliver better
performance.

>                     and how the heck to configure VMS.

Depending on how you decided to set it up, this could be hard or
maybe even easier than what you have now.  Again, more info will
be required.

> Thanks for any help you are anyone else can provide.
> I have xcursion but I have never used it.
> We have been using X-free and use it in other applications, but it is
> not configured to be user-friendly for starting up.  I pretty much
> need something that will just pop up the login screen when it is
> powered up, if possible.

That you can do.  Where are you located?

bill

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