[Info-vax] Reverse telnet to a terminal emulator?

[Jeremy Begg]

Hi,

VAXman- wrote:
> In article <4e251189$0$11106$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, Jeremy Begg <jeremy.removethis at vsm.com.au> writes:
> 
>>{...snip...}
>>
>>An alternative to that approach, or to writing some sort of "pipe" program, 
>>might be to have your application use a DECterm.  For example, run this 
>>before starting the application:
>>
>>	$ SET DISPLAY/CREATE/NODE=pc-node/TRANSPORT=TCPIP
>>	$ CREATE/TERMINAL/NOPROCESS/DEFINE="DECTERM"
>>
[...]
> 
> Right!  And, it will be a much better emulation if VMS fonts can be made
> available to the DECterm too.
> 
> Now that you've brought this up, I copy my SYS$COMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW] font
> directories to my linux and Mac, run 'mkfontdir' and then I can 'xset fp+'
> these fonts to the fontpath.  This solves some issue when dealing with the
> VMS font server serving these fonts. 
> 
> Does anyone know how to do this same thing under WEENDOZE X11?

Here's my somewhat belated response --

It depends ....

Almost all the machines I use with DECterm are running MultiNet.  So I use 
the Multinet FONTSERVER service and (on my Mac) use 'xset fp+ tcp/host:7000' 
to access the fonts.  This will work with any Windows X11 server which 
allows you to specify a font server for it.

	Jeremy Begg