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From: rab@murdu.oz (Richard Alan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.aos
Subject: Terminal `support' under AOS/VS - HELP!
Message-ID: <1780@murdu.oz>
Date: 11 Dec 89 00:33:15 GMT
Reply-To: rab@murdu.UUCP (Richard Alan Brown)
Organization: Computing Services, Melb. Uni.
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I have always been confused about DG's `support' of different terminals.
We use 'CHAR/605x' for all of our D200 and D210 terminals. Anything else
is trouble. For terminals like DEC VT100's and the like, we use
CHAR/CRT9. The problem with the CHAR/CRTx, where x = 1 - 9, is that our
documentation tells us nothing about the details of these 'emulations'.
(Since we have MV/UX, it is possible to run VI and EMACS under this
quasi-unix with non-DG terminals, but it's so... slow.....)

My other gripe is that TELNET refuses to allow anything but a hardcopy
connection, which makes it virtually useless as a networked machine.

So, my questions are:

1. What are the details about CHAR/CRTx ? Can they be redefined?

2. Can TELNET be made to recognise terminals as anything but dumb,
   hardcopy devices?

Richard Brown
(pbrown@munda.ph.unimelb.edu.au)