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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-09-12, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> 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?

If you carry on reading :-), you will see that I was talking about
terminal emulators running on Linux, not Windows, and that I stated
pterm, which is a xterm style packaging of PuTTY, was one of the
two emulators I had tried on Linux which were usable with VMS systems.

> 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.
>> 

I'm not sure about EVE/TPU, but EDT runs ok on VT100 terminals.

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

And that's also what I use on Windows for terminal emulation.

Provided you use the correct keyboard layout option, it works fine.

Simon.

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