[Info-vax] Open source terminal emulators, was: Re: DECnet Phase IV broken after VSI update

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/1/2021 9:40 PM, dthi... at gmail.com wrote:
>> 8 bit support is a critical feature.
> 
> PuTTY does do 8-bit; note that Putty's identification sequence is
> hard-coded, so SET TERM /INQUIRE will always identify it as a VT102.
> 
> You can override this by setting the terminal type manually. SET TERM
> /DEV=<pick> /EIGHT. You can even make color work if you set the color
> attribute manually.
> 
> It also helps if you set the font to DEC MCS.  :-)

I use PuTTY myself.

Arne