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

[Michael Moroney]

=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:

>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.


Might be just settings. If you use the 8 bit character stuff, you'll want
to be sure the character set is ISO-8859-1 (or DEC-MCS if you insist!), the
default is UTF-8.