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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-01-25 kl. 16:48, skrev lists at openmailbox.org:
> 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...

It might be Emacs that combines some info.

What does $ SHOW TERM show as "Device_Type:" ?

In my case (also with Putty), and SET TERM/INQ just sets a
normalt device type with no embedded width...

Isn't there some config file that contains the "terminals"
accepted by Emacs?



> 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.
>