[HECnet] Vt100 tester

[Gregg Levine]

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2013-03-05 21:56, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:

Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:

On 2013-03-05 21:33, Johnny Billquist wrote:

On 2013-03-05 21:18, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:

Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> writes:

Yep.     From the FAQ:

The emulation level for xterm is set via the resource decTerminalID,
*e.g.*,
to 220 for a VT220. Once set, applications can set the emulation
level up
or down within that limit. DEC's terminals are configured in much the
same
way by a setup option.


Yup... .Xresources has "decTerminalID: vt200" but that still doesn't
excuse
it for misbehaving as one. ;)   It also doesn't do DECDWL or DECDHL
when it's
set for vt200.


Note that the value should be set to "220", not "vt220", nor "vt200".



And I should correct myself. Leading letters are ignored in
decTerminalID, so vt220 works just as well as 220. However, vt200 will
probably still not create the desired result.

And you need the resource class or resource name in there as well, so
just a plain decTerminalID in your x resources will not work right.



I'll have to stop postin shorthand for you...


:-)

XTerm.vt100.decTerminalID: vt200


Now change that to "vt220". :-)


              Johnny

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Hello!
Here's an interesting tidbit. The first time I saw a cluster of these
terminals was about fifteen years previously. They were used to manage
the entire line of business of the Federation Employment Guidance
Service over in Manhattan. Then about the time they switched over to
something other then the VAX (and this despite the fact that their
kludgy billing and record keeping solution runs only on that
platform.) I believed then that they first went for the Alpha and
someone else worked out how to have this <Expletive Deleted!> working
there. And then they were using the PC to talk to their solution and
still using DECNet.

Then when I started in earnest visiting the Queens Borough Public
Library they were entirely DEC based complete with (you guessed it!)
these terminals to do everything.

Now they too are gone.

It gets screwier. The New York State College of Optometry again in
Manhattan is still using an entire DEC based solution for their work.
I certainly hope they hired the right hobbyist to maintain their
gear.......

Oh and Dave please stop staring at the visiting Timelord. He's there
to buy the entire island where an idiot placed an atomic energy
plant.... And please stop trying to pay the Yetis who are throw
snowballs at you.
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