[Info-vax] VMS on remote desktops

[Mike Rechtman]

On 05/11/10 18:30, JohnF wrote:
> VAXman- wrote:
>> "FredK"<fred.nospam at dec.com>  writes:
>>> <VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG>  wrote
>>>>   "FredK"<fred.nospam at dec.com>  writes:
>>>>
>>>> I use mosy my Linux laptop and my Mac.  I've done plenty
>>>> with 'xmodmap' for the keycode hacks.  I've worked around
>>>> most of the problems using the font server.  I access the
>>>> VMS system(s) with 'ssh -X' but I've also toyed with using
>>>> 'xnest'.
>>>>
>>>> As for fonts, the double-high/double-wide terminal fonts
>>>> always cause issue within 'xterm'.  I export $CREATE/TERMINAL
>>>> for doing debugging and, without the font server, some of
>>>> the line drawing stuff and, I believe, the reverse video
>>>> use in the character-cell debugger cause issue.   I don't
>>>> really use any of the other GUI toys that came with CDE.
>>>> A functional terminal is all I ask for -- and which I have
>>>> now with the font server.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.  I suspect a ot of VMS people (like UNIX folks) are
<... snipped...>
>>
>> keycode 79 = 0xff91
>> keycode 89 = 0xff92
>> keycode 83 = 0xff93
>> keycode 75 = 0xff94
>> keycode 77 = 0xffac
>
> Don't know if this is of any use at all -- I run the bash
> shell script
>   http://www.forkosh.com/vt100.sh
> from X on my linux box and then telnet from that terminal
> window into vaxstations.  All the edt gold keys, etc, seem
> to work fine, with your same big [+] key problem, of course.
> And I doubt double-wide/high chars would display correctly,
> but haven't tried.  The script's authors are commented at
> the top of the file, as far as I know. My only change was
> to flip<key>Right and<key>Left, which apparently needed
> flipping. (I also changed colors from green-on-black to
> white-on-black, font size from 8x13 to 9x15, and maybe a
> few other cosmetic-only changes I don't recall.)

Many thanks! Almost exactly what I needed.
(Now if anyone know how to make Linux Telnet show Hebrew characters, they will 
earn my undying gratitude.)

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