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From: phys169@canterbury.ac.nz
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Subject: Re: PC/TCP telnet'ing to UCX not giving me VT220 emulation
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.145523.9758@canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 13 Nov 90 01:55:23 GMT
References: <1990Nov6.225136.27945@shell.shell.com>
Organization: University of Canterbury
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In article <1990Nov6.225136.27945@shell.shell.com>, jda@swamp.shell.com (Joel D. Anderson) writes:
> We are using FTP Software's PC/TCP (both version 2.04 and 2.05) to telnet to
> a VMS (OS V5.3-1) VAX with UCX.  PC/TCP is designed to (attempt to) provide
> VT220 emulation, however UCX is failing the terminal negotiation for VT220.

VMS fails to recognise *many* pure ANSI terminals that don't respond to the
DEC-specific enquiry "ESC [ c" - this might be your problem. One workaround
would be an IF statement in your LOGIN.COM to determine what terminal type you
have already, and use SET TERM/ANSI if needed. Ideally, the terminal type
determination in SET TERM/INQ should also check for cursor position report,
then it would work with Televideo 970's, Sun (etc) workstations running telnet,
and DG terminals in ANSI mode (not that everyone needs to use these, but ANSI
is supposed to be an industry-wide standard, not DEC's own concoction).

Mark Aitchison, Physics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.