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

[John Reagan]

On Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 3:43:25 PM UTC-4, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2019-09-12 kl. 20:21, skrev 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. :-)
> >>
> 
> Why would not EDT work using something like Putty?
> I have used EDT daily for I don't know how many years,
> and there is nothing that I wanted to do that didn't work.
> 
> I have more issues when I happens to be using a keyboard
> that has no numerical keypad...
> 
> 
> >> 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
> >

I've used PuTTY with EDT, LSE, DTM, Notes, etc. all with full keypad in place.  Worked great.