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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/13/2019 8:19 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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:
>>>>> 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.

That makes it a Linux problem.

:-)

>>>> 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.

I am sure some runs on VT100.

But I would not be surprised if some does not.

For VMS I consider VT200 minimum.

Arne