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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-09-12 kl. 22:05, skrev 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.
> 

Right. Agree. But I'd like to know what issues Simon had.