[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Scott Dorsey]

In article <uvn81c$17ui1$1 at dont-email.me>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 4/16/2024 8:19 PM, motk wrote:
>> So, a really basic one here.
>> 
>> What's the current best practice to match term types between vms and ssh 
>> clients? OpenVms doesn't see to understand a termtype of xterm, and I'm 
>> not sure if it recognises termtypes from an (inbound session) openssh 
>> config file.
>> 
>> It would probably be good for VSI to spend a bit of time documenting 
>> this, maybe creating some client configs to try.
>
>If xterm supports VT200/VT300/VT400 then set terminal to
>one of those.
>
>In theory /INQUIRE should work, but but reality can be different.

/INQUIRE gets "xterm" and VMS doesn't know what to do with that.  If it
just would set it to ansi when it gets "xterm" as a string it would be fine.
--scott

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