On Wed, Dec 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM Wayne S via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can you set your terminal emulator to emulate a vt220 instead of trying > vms to do vt100. You used the set term vt100 command before? > > Vms has help. Just type help set from a command prompt. > > Also can do show term to see term params. Maybe show term /all … don’t > remember exactly. > Yes. "$ SET TERM/VT100" or "$ SET TERM/VT220" I believe will do the right thing depending on your terminal emulator. SHOW TERM usually is enough, though /ALL can't hurt. Beware, though, that EDT really loves to use the keypad keys in extended mode, and all the 'commands' are GOLD + <something> and you need to be in that mindset to use it for anything except straight text entering, or using the arrow keys to find a place to insert/delete text. And it's picky, so the terminal emulation has to support I think the alternate keypad encodings (there's three: normal numbers, the normal encoding and the alternative encoding for some reason that has decayed from my mind after 30-odd years). Warner > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Dec 24, 2025, at 10:23, Peter Ekstrom via cctalk < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > I feel like I have tried everything, although I'm sure I haven't... > > > > I have my real MV 3100 up and running with a serial terminal on the > console > > port. It works great but I don't want to sit by the machine all the time > to > > do stuff. I have DECnet running and am able to connect to it. I have an > old > > raspberry pi running a minimal linux setup with the decnet stuff > installed. > > > > So I ssh to the pi (named gatewy) and from there I use dnlogin to talk > > DECnet and connect to the machines. This way I can connect to my PDP-11 > > machines running RSX11M and M+ and use EDT to edit files in screen mode. > > When I try the same under VMS, EDT starts, loads the file and enters > screen > > mode but just shows a blank screen with the cursor in the top-left > corner. > > If I go to line mode I can walk through the file and edit using line > mode. > > But as soon as I go back to the screen mode (the change command) I just > get > > the blank screen. > > > > I have made sure TERM in each shell is vt100 and I have tried forcing VMS > > to VT100 but it stays with a vt200_series terminal. I also have a SIMH > > MV3100 also running VMS 5.3-1 (they both run on that version) and it acts > > the same way as the hardware MV3100. If I go onto the console connection > in > > SIMH EDT works fine, as on the physical terminal on the real machine. > > > > Anyone have any pointers or ideas I can try? > > > > - Peter >
