[Info-vax] Terminal emulators, was: Re: OpenVMS graphics - once more

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-03-06, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 8:37:29 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>> 
>> I also use PuTTY on Linux which works ok apart from a really annoying
>> issue where PF1 through PF4 doesn't work in the keyboard mapping I
>> selected (the PC keyboard friendly layout instead of the strict DEC
>> keyboard mode) unless the keypad is in application keypad mode.
>> 
>> On Windows PCs, I've installed Teraterm which works ok apart from not
>> been able to get it to do double height/double width characters.
>
> Maybe I'm just lucky, but I use PuTTY on a W7 box.  I connect to VSI (via 2
> ssl sessions) and I can just LSE, NOTES, DTM, SHOW CLUSTER/CONT, etc.  all
> work just fine with the keybpad PF1 thru PF4 (at least for what I do).  I
> had tried iTerm2 from a MacBook but never got that work right at all.

That's probably because either you are using a different keymap mapping
option in PuTTY than I am or because those applications are putting the
keypad into application keypad mode and taking it out of application
keypad mode on exit.

Simon.

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