[Info-vax] unalphabetical help

[Ken Fairfield]

On Saturday, January 5, 2013 4:51:11 AM UTC-8, VAXm... at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
[...]
> Sorry, that should have read DECDWL.  If they couldn't get
> DECSWL right, then they truly are hopeless.  Put the following
> into a command file and execute it.
> 
> $ ESC[0,8]=%x1B
> $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT "''ESC'#6 This is DECDWL line of text"
> $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT "''ESC'#3 This is DECDHL line of text"
> $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT "''ESC'#4 This is DECDHL line of text"
> 
> Try it on a real VT or in a DECterm if you don't see it
> rendered as line characters twice as wide (DECDWL-DEC 
> Double Wide Line) and twice as wide and high (DECDHL-DEC
> Double High Line).

I've got Reflection 14.1.83 installed on my PC (which
happens to be running Win 7 on a 64-bit Intel cpu).
Putting those lines in VAXMAN.COM (what else!) and running
it on an emulated Charon VAX running VMS 7.3 gives the
expected output, double-wide in the first case, double-high/
double-wide in the second.

I admit, I was pleasantly surprised.  This version of
Reflection includes SSH support (good, and which I needed),
but it dropped support for my LK462 keyboard (through their
LK450 mapping).  That is, most of the VT keys work as
expected/desired, but top-row function keys, F13-F17 (where
F15==Help and F16==Do), are "dead" with nothing being
passed onto the host computer.  :-(

Also, in reference to an earlier query in this thread, we
were using PuTTY to access our Linux systems at Cerner.  A
couple of the Cerner applications, which were developed on
VMS, expect a PF3 and similar in certain cases.  We couldn't
get PuTTY to send that. (Noting the earlier reference to
needing to put the keypad in application mode, I'm not sure
any of us knew that we could do that in PuTTY, and neither
did our Cerner support folks.  We're using Reflection now,
and I don't think there's a motivation to go back and see if
we can get PuTTY to work...)

   -Ken