[Info-vax] putty settings for Charon

[Tom Adams]

On Friday, November 22, 2019 at 6:46:58 AM UTC-5, Hans Bachner wrote:
> Tom Adams schrieb am 21.11.2019 um 21:06:
> > Thanks, I tried adding TTA0 to the configuration.
> > 
> > I tried logging in there, but I had the same problem.  There must be some extra characters or something.
> > 
> > If act normal, asking me to enter the new password twice and then it reports illegal password syntax.
> > 
> > I figure there must be something wrong with the putty terminal configuration where it sends a control character or something.  But I cannot figure it out.
> 
> Please check the following settings in the PuTTY configuration, category 
> "Terminal":
> 
> - Implicit CR in every LF should *not* be checked
> - Implicit LF in every CR should *not* be checked
> - "Local echo" and "Local line editing" should be "Force off"
> 
>  From your other post:
> > By the way TTA0 and TTB0 are not actually defaulted. There is a
>  > commented out TTA0 in the default configuration file. No TTB0 and I
>  > did not bother to add that.
> 
> They are default configurations in PuTTY (at least in my installations), 
> not necessarily in the configurations for the various CHARON-AXP models. 
> TTB0 is a standard device in some (CHARON-)VAX models, iirc.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Hans.

Thanks!

It was the echo setting