[Info-vax] X-terminals again

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <4d17804c-61d4-497b-a55c-0b8c5f0acc1e at g3g2000pre.googlegroups.com>,
	tadamsmar <tadamsmar at yahoo.com> writes:
> On Jan 14, 3:54 pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>> In article <ef7eec66-c965-4575-be5e-531f51cb0... at r32g2000vba.googlegroups.com>,
>>         tadamsmar <tadams... 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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>> Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
>> billg... at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
>> University of Scranton   |
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> Chapel Hill, NC

A bit of a haul from here.  :-)  It would be much easier to show than to
tell.

bill
-- 
Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
billg999 at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
University of Scranton   |
Scranton, Pennsylvania   |         #include <std.disclaimer.h>