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Re: vt100



On 30.12.2017 19:25, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 01:09:02PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 06:38:16PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>>> On 30.12.2017 17:41, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 11:39:38AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 03:53:35PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>>>>>> How to setup correctly vt100 in a terminal?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've set exported TERM=vt100, called tset and stty and I keep observing
>>>>>> artifacts.
> 
> setting $TERM won't help with VMS :-)
> 
> Now... you could use the xterm option to tell it (in effect) to tell
> the host not to send 8-bit controls:
> 
> man xterm:
> 
>        -ti term_id
>                Specify  the  name used by xterm to select the correct response
>                to terminal ID queries.  It also specifies the emulation level,
>                used  to  determine  the  type  of  response  to  a  DA control
>                sequence.  Valid values  include  vt52,  vt100,  vt101,  vt102,
>                vt220,  and  vt240  (the  “vt”  is  optional).   The default is
>                “vt420”.  The term_id argument specifies  the  terminal  ID  to
>                use.  (This is the same as the decTerminalID resource).
> 
> That is,
> 
> 	xterm -ti 100
> 
> or
> 
> 	xterm -ti 102
> 
> and if the host is behaving properly, it'll give up on 8-bit controls.
> 
> Of course, VT100's have no function keys (F1-F12), nor Home/End,
> PageUp/PageDown, but cursor-keys should work.  Your experience here
> will depend on what the applications are using.
> 

This didn't help (starting "xterm -ti 100" on my NetBSD host and
telneting to OpenVMS), however I have found the solution.

I've set in OpenVMS the following option:

SET TERMINAL/DEVICE_TYPE=vt100

py-terminator started to work correctly (and the same should happen with
xterm).

Thank you for your help!

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