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

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In article <qle0cr$q1q$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>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.

I use xterm on Linux and ssh from its command line to VMS.  I find that I
can do most everything I need to do save for the stupid laptop alternate
keypad missing a key which was easily overcome with an xmodmap definition.

When I really need VT-type display features, I issue $ CREATE/TERMINAL.

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