[Info-vax] Terminal emulators, was: Re: Monitor for Alphastation 500

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-09-12, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 9/11/2019 6:23 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> 
>> Agree, Putty works fine enough. Have used it for all my VMS work,
>> both hobbysit and professional, since 10+ years back. No issues.
>> Before that I used WRQ Reflection for 20 years. The best of the
>> commercial alternatives....
>
> I think all emulators today works OK for standard stuff.
>

Provided "standard stuff" doesn't mean trying to use EVE/TPU or EDT. :-)

Disclaimer: It's been a number of years since I last did these tests,
so things might have improved since then, but I went through a number
of the open source terminal emulators which run on Linux and at the
time, only xterm (with a configuration script) and the pterm component
of PuTTY were usable when connecting to VMS systems.

A number of the emulators worked just fine when using the standard
Unix programs, but broke when I tried to use VMS specific programs
such as EVE/TPU or EDT.

Simon.

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