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

Michael Moroney moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com
Sat Sep 14 08:55:22 EDT 2019


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

>VMS doesn't "use" any specific character set at all! It is
>totally agnostic about character sets. VMS stores any 8-bit
>value and what that looks like is a question about presentation.

EDT is DEC-MCS aware to the limited extent that it will print the same <nn>
codes that it uses for displaying control codes for characters undefined in
DEC-MCS, rather than (trying to) display the character itself.

I will fix that.



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