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

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In article <4E3F5FD1.70005 at vsm.com.au>, Jeremy Begg <jeremy.removethis at vsm.com.au> writes:
>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.

I did do that at home with TCPIP Services.  However, when on the road, I
could never seem to tunnel 7000 through an ssh connection and get it to
work reliably.  I now have placed copies of the VMS fonts in the ~/.fonts 
directory of my linux laptop and use '$ xset fp+ ~/.fonts/100dpi' when I
need a DECterm.  Much faster too!

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