[Info-vax] OpenVMS Remote Management (was: Re: Most usable graphics card(s) for VMS on a DS10)

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rlm0oc$g4p$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> Exactly. About the only thing people seem to use a VMS desktop for
> these days is to run DECterms.

Not just that, also XDVI, Ghostview, etc.

> Why do you need to insert graphics cards into VMS systems for that ?
> 
> Why not just connect to the VMS machines directly via a terminal emulator
> if that is all you are doing ?

Because the system on the other end doesn't have a proper keyboard.  
Because then I need an ADDITIONAL system I have no other use for.  
Because I like CDE.  Many reasons.

> What proper X applications are people running on VMS these days and
> is there anything about those applications which stop their output
> from simply being routed over SSH ?

Yes, you can route it via SSH, but not with the same functionality.

One can export the whole CDE interface elsewhere, and I have done that, 
but it is not as good, and there is still the keyboard problem.