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From: indep-6@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Scott Corcoran)
Newsgroups: comp.os.aos
Subject: Re: Connection from Xenix to AOS/VS
Summary: How not to attack the terminal emulation problem
Keywords: AOS/VS, DG, TERM
Message-ID: <1990Mar8.230131.8089@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 90 23:01:31 GMT
References: <998@xroads.UUCP>
Sender: Scott Corcoran
Reply-To: indep-6@sjsumcs.SJSU.EDU (Scott Corcoran)
Organization: San Jose State University
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In article <998@xroads.UUCP> willis@xroads.UUCP (Raymond Willis) writes:
>
>I have connected my computer, a Compaq 386/25 running under Xenix,
>version 2.3 to a DG computer running AOS/VS.  I use TERM from Century
>Software to communicate with it.  This works fine for many things.  Two
>deficiencies that bother me greatly are the delete key does not work and CEO
>doesn't work at all.  Is there any software package that will allow me to run
>CEO?  I realize Blast, SmartTerm, and CEO Connect are possibilities but I
>understand they only work under DOS.  It seems like there should be a way to
>get the delete key to work with TERM using a character substitution but so
>far have not found any that works.  Any suggestions?

I have had similar difficulties talking from 386/ix to AOS/VS.
I am writing to warn people with similar difficulties about what not to do.
Terminal emulators do not work under the DOS emulation package that came
with 386/ix, so don't both attempting to run say Smartterm on top of
VP/ix.

My solution for the duration of the problem was to write a kludge 605x
emulator program in C that used 2 processes, one for async->display and
the other process for keyboard->async. It worked, but considerably more
intelligence is required to emulate a D200+ at a level compatible with
CEO, etc. The 605x emulation worked, ran SED, but was not of sufficient
quality to want to share (I didn't even keep the source; it is buried
somewhere at UCLA).

DG is acutely aware of this problem, now that it is involved so heavily with
the 88k. (this is inside info). I wouldn't be surprised if a quality solution
is on the way.