[Info-vax] OSes

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On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 07:40:30 -0600
"John E. Malmberg via Info-vax" <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> On 1/15/2016 3:34 AM, lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
> >
> > I got the impression this (DECwindows using X forwarding from VMS to a
> > Linux X server) is not possible on SIMH. Has anybody gotten it to work?
> 
> The DEC/CPQ/HP TCP/IP services that are available to VAX/VMS does not 
> have SSH, so SSH tunneling is not possible.

That's a good explanation.

> The Process Software Multinet which is also available under a free hobby 
> license does have SSH.  I have not yet tried that combination.

Good to know. I may get around to trying that later.

> Using a free X-Server such as in Linux, or Cygwin/X, etc. does 
> absolutely work and I do it all the time.

I haven't used it with VMS/VAX but I do X forwarding in my network to work
on various systems I have. My question was on the specific combo of VMS/VAX
running on SIMH.

> X-Server will not have the fonts on it to properly render the text 
> displayed from VAX/VMS.

If I can find the fonts I can add them to the host font path.

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