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

[Christine C. <chr...@go...>]

On 11/08/09 13:35, Tilman Groth wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> 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:
>

dnlogin just uses the emulation provided by the terminal you are using - 
it doesn't do any of its own. so if you're on a Linux console or an 
xterm you should get something resembling a vt100.

Try

$ SET TERMINAL/VT100
or
$ SET TERMINAL/INQUIRE

before start the application and see if that helps.

You might also try different 'terminal's such as xterm, rxvt etc. I've 
found rxvt to be very good when talking to VAXes.

Chrissie