There’s probably a shell script floating around that does a good job of making the keyboard work correctly when using an xterm. I think it’s called vt100.sh. Though the last time I tried to use it was on a Mac and the xterm wasn’t compiled with the necessary options.
These days I use SecureCRT. Zane Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 24, 2025, at 10:23 AM, 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
