[Info-vax] Installing OpenVMS alpha on free AlphaVM - prompted for SYSTEM password

[Wilm Boerhout]

badger007 mentioned  on 24-8-2012 1:47:
> Hello
>
> i ran in that problem on putty installing 8.3 well i run fedora 17 64 bit.
> i just installed a couple more telnet programs that will work with the emulator
 > for in which xterm will
> not work I used a program called PCManX 1.1 it worked ok to type in the password.
> you also can not copy an past in putty either i think you can in pcmanx 1.1
>
> Badger007
>
>
In any and all emulators for VAX and Alpha that I have used, puTTY works 
fine for all functions that a VT102 terminal provides.

Apart from using "putty -raw" when connecting to the emulators console 
(OPA0:), there is only one crucial setting to prevent the OP's problems:

In puTTY "Terminal" configuration section, set both "Local Echo" and 
"Local Line Editing" to "Force Off". This makes sure the VAX / Alpha 
console and/or VMS handles these functions.

All other puTTY configuration options are really user preference.

Copy/Paste works fine as well.

/Wilm