[Linux-decnet-user] WG: New to list - coming with some questions..

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I discovered that I had posted this earlier messages under a different email alias, so I try to post again...

Til

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Datum: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:27h
Von: tr...@o2...
An: <lin...@li...>
Betreff: New to list - coming with some questions..

Hi, I tried to post this last week, but it seems it got stuck somewhere, so again:

Hello, 

I am coming from the windows world, with some (but limited) linux experiences a couple of years ago. In my new workplace, I am now confronted with the wondrous world of VMS - as it was 20 years ago: orange terminals and all the stuff that I have seen when I was really little. Therefore I was very delighted that 
this project exists and I set forth to hook up and install a linux pc with the vms machines. (I tried to put that down in the wiki a couple of days ago: Installation on SUSE 11.1. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the links to work). 

It works pretty well, but of course there is still some room for more understanding from my side, which I hope you can provide :)

My basic task is to develop small software projects for the 2 vax machines (in pascal).  

So now I have a network of three nodes:
  S15,     a microvax II running 	VMS V4.6
  S1650, a vaxstation 3200 running	VMS V5.5-2
and my now trusted PC1, with SUSE 11.1 and dnprogs.

dncopy and dndir work well, but dnlogin gives me some trouble: it seems as if the type of terminal is not really understood by the vaxes. For example, when I run one of the testprograms, i get to see the escape sequences which don´t seem to be interpreted correctly:

?r?2J?3;1H S15/S1650 software version 9 

%S15_Monitor : Starting on head 1 "DUA1:[S15LIB.RAM.4S281632]TEST.EXE;1"
%S15_Monitor : No Test on Head 2
%S15_Monitor : SIMUL WITHOUT creating PATTERN SIMULATION FILE 
%S15_Monitor : Spawning _RTA2s15d0
               _RTA2head1,NO_OIC1
               Terminal is :?62;1"p?>c Unknown 

- instead of one line of stars, and then a line saying "HEAD SELECTED=    1", and then a menu line with the first characters inverted, I get the following:

ï¿½2Jï¿½1;18rï¿½19;1H***************************************
***************************************************************
******************************ï¿½24;1Hï¿½Jï¿½20;1Hï¿½Jï¿½22;1Hï¿½JTEST HEAD SELECTED=   1ï¿½25;1Hï¿½Jï¿½24;1Hï¿½Jï¿½7mENTER ï¿½0m ï¿½7mGï¿½mO   ï¿½7mDï¿½mEBUG   ï¿½7mHï¿½mEAD   ï¿½7mCï¿½mLASS   ï¿½7mQï¿½mUIT   ï¿½7mEï¿½mXIT 

when I do the same of the serial line with minicom, everything seems ok (except for some noise that gets transmitted and makes my screen shake!!)

What happens here and what can I do about it?

I guess this is enough for today, although there are still a lot of other questions, like if it was possible to mount not only my home dir with daps (and if that would really help me ;).

Maybe you can be so kind and give me some hints on what to do. I would also be glad if you knew some reading material, as I am not too lazy to read.

Whishing you all a very beautiful week-end.
>From Germany,
Til

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