[Info-vax] VMS on remote desktops

[FredK]

"John Wallace" <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:334bfad1-46b5-46e1-8022-46a3f4644fca at l17g2000yqe.googlegroups.com...
On Nov 2, 5:37 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> One piece of information that would be useful is the list of fonts that
> DECterm will use for various renditions of a VT200 (bold, blink,
> underline, reverse video, double width, double height-double-width etc.
>
> And perhaps package them in a unix friendly font format.
>
> Although this was not the plan originally, my Alpha may be powered down
> first. Its power supply has showed signs of aging. When this happens,
> there won't be a font server left to get proper renditions of VT220
> stuff on DECterms (running from a VAX), so I will need to install those
> fonts on the Mac.
>
> I had done this ages ago on OS-X classic and had used Fontographer to
> convert the font formats.

I'm aware of at least one DEC-supplied terminal emulator for Windows
which came with its own VT fonts (I'm probably thinking of the Multia
emulator, which might have been called VTstar - but I could be
confusbed).

I don't have one handy right now but (a) does anyone else remember it
(b) does anyone know whether it Did The Right Thing with doubleheight
(c) does anyone know what the font licence was or (d) where an
equivalent font package might be found?

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There was a terminal emulator that was developed by a guy at the same time I 
was doing the VWS emulator (which became the basis of DECterm).  His was 
semi-hobby (think Amiga) at first - and very, very good - we did a lot of 
one-upsmanship - but he was actually a terminals group guy and a lot better 
than me and did things mine didn't need to do.  I believe that this was what 
was used on the Multia.  I think I had a copy of it squirreled away a long, 
long time ago.

Fonts have always been a grey area - because some are/were licenced - so the 
font server was always the safest route to providing the fonts rather than 
trying to figure out what could be packaged for export off of VMS.  I 
probably have the fonts I developed myself for the VWS emulator converted to 
one of the X11 formats...  but I don't know that the layout of the fonts are 
the same - they probably are not.