[Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX

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On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:15:16 +0100
Johnny Billquist via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> On 2016-01-25 15:38, lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
> 
> > Falling back to using the baked-in directory name it gets further
> >
> > [Spawning a new Kept EMACS]
> >
> > but I get a message for various emulated terminals that they aren't
> > supported. For example coming in through Putty's telnet I get:
> >
> > emacs: Terminal type vt102-132 is not defined.
> > If that is not the actual type of terminal you have,
> > use the Bourne shell command `TERM=... export TERM' (C-shell:
> > `setenv TERM ...') to specify the correct type. It may be necessary
> > to do `unset TERMCAP' (C-Shell: `unsetenv TERMCAP') as well.
> >
> > Using xterm and telnet I get a similar message:
> >
> > emacs: Terminal type vt100-132 is not defined.
> >
> > So I used the default xterm size and it also failed similarly:
> >
> > emacs: Terminal type vt400-80 is not defined.
> >
> > Do you know how to resolve the terminal issue? Looks like it's fairly
> > close but there would still be the issue of how to make it globally
> > available since the directory structure and names are baked-in...
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the help.
> 
> Why are you having the terminal width encoded into the terminal type? 
> The terminal type is independent of the width. A terminal like "vt100", 
> "vt200", "vt220", "vt400", and so on would be expected.
> Something like "vt100-80" is just weird.

It is set by SET TERM/INQ which I have in my login.com as suggested by the
guys here way back when I started using VMS. If I don't use that then VMS
doesn't know what size terminal I have and all kinds of paged output
doesn't work properly.

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