[Info-vax] VMS on remote desktops

[JF Mezei]

I use Xterm for line command on the mac, and to telnet/ssh to various
networking equipment.

To access VMS, it is almost exclusively DECterms launched via RSH.

When the VMS machines boot, they create a permanent WSA device pointing
to my desktop mac and a corresponding MAC$DISPLAY logical. The RSH
procedure defines DECW$DISPLAY to the value of MAC$DISOPLAY and do the
create/terminal thing.

There are times when I need to telnet into VMS, when the CREATE/TERM
fails to work. (often due to the MAc having forgotten to lost the
XHOST.X0 file which contains the list of permitted clients). But
telnetting to VMS is rare now.

(nd yes, within my lan, I don't bother with ssh).