From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 22 14:54:27 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C3716A402 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:54:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.26.172.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4FDC13C48E for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:54:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id l1MEs8vD051123 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:54:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id l1MEs8jn051122; Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:54:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from fbsd61 ([192.168.200.61]) by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA18228; Thu, 22 Feb 07 01:03:18 PST Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 01:04:39 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: dickey@radix.net, mexas@bristol.ac.uk Message-Id: <45dd5ca7.ae4LWHr14/zt+Tnf%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <20070220155157.GA14595@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> <20070220164517.GA27420@saltmine.radix.net> <20070220190537.GA15632@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070220190537.GA15632@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> User-Agent: nail 11.25 7/29/05 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh to VMS - terminal problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:54:27 -0000 > > yes - VMS only knows about DEC-compatible terminals. None of > > the *BSD console emulators do well enough to be usable on VMS. > > > > xterm supports ANSI color, VT220 emulation and UTF-8 > > There's an faq at > > http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html > > ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/ Which is fine if one doesn't mind having to fire up X. Another possible approach would be to run ports/sysutils/screen, which "should" provide a decent VT100 over just about anything with a terminfo better than "dumb" or "unknown" :) > So, what was pcvt driver designed for? I understood from the man > pages that it is supposed to be compartible with DEC function keys? Generating the escape sequences for the DEC function keys is one thing. Handling all the escape sequences that VMS throws at it is another.