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From: spam@c3pe.UUCP (John "Spam" Rehwinkel)
Newsgroups: net.decus
Subject: Re: Favorite operating systems query (UNIX vs VMS flaming!!!)
Message-ID: <180@c3pe.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Jul-86 13:56:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: c3pe.180
Posted: Mon Jul 14 13:56:32 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jul-86 05:36:09 EDT
Organization: C3 Inc., Reston, VA
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Summary: Can VMS support non-DEC terminals?


	I've been assigned the job of hooking a Wyse 50 terminal to
a uVAX II running VMS.  As far as I can tell, there's no way to tell
VMS how to use it as anything more than a dumb terminal.  UNIX will
let you define any reasonable (or even unreasonable) terminal via
termcap, and have full use of the cursor keys and terminal features.
VMS only supports (expensive) DEC terminals.  I'm posting this mostly
because I hope I'm wrong, and there really is a (reasonable) way to
tell VMS about foreign terminals.  I've looked through the manuals,
but it looks like I would have to have DCL source or some such to do
this.  Another problem is a Genicom laser printer that doesn't want
to recognize DEC escape codes, but it's lower priority.  I realize
that a Wyse 85 terminal does excellent VT100/200 emulation, but I
have to work with a 50, I don't have a choice.

					-- John ("Spam") Rehwinkel
					C3, Inc.
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