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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/12/2019 1:48 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

You need something that emulate VT200 or higher.

But EVE has worked fine in what I have been using.

Currently Putty.

Arne