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

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On 9/14/19 9:11 AM, Hans Vlems wrote:
> Michael wrote: DEC-MCS if you insist!
> 
> Why did you add that comment? I use DEC-MCS in PuTTY to connect to my own VMS systems. 
> Seems to work for me (EDT mainly and home grown programs that use SMG routines)

Because the character sets ISO-8859-1 and DEC-MCS differ in 5 characters
(which you may not have used/needed), see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_Character_Set. And VMS uses
DEC-MCS not ISO-8859-1. For example 0xf7 is the character œ in DEC-MCS
and ÷ in ISO-8859-1.