[Info-vax] EDIT wierdness with OpenVMS 9.2 on x86

Single Stage to Orbit alex.buell at munted.eu
Tue Apr 18 16:46:50 EDT 2023


On Tue, 2023-04-18 at 17:29 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
> > That's a pretty good guess, I'll check my terminal emulation
> > settings. I've been using device_type=vt132 with /page=43 and
> > /width=143 as that's my favourite gnome terminal settings. 
> 
> Have you successfully used gnome-terminal to edit files on other VMS
> systems ?

Yes, SimH and AXPBox were flawless. :(

> I would suggest either xterm with a suitable keyboard mapping script,
> or PuTTY (which does indeed run under Linux and also comes with a
> pterm component).

As it happens, there's a PuTTY package, I'll install and try it out. 

> Using vttest at https://invisible-island.net/vttest/ used to be
> rather interesting when trying it against the various open source
> terminal emulators other than xterm or PuTTY but that's not something
> I've had the need to do in recent years.

OK, grabbed the sources too, this should be interesting.

Cheers!
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