Re: ssh to VMS - terminal problems

2007-02-22 Thread perryh
yes - VMS only knows about DEC-compatible terminals. None of the *BSD console emulators do well enough to be usable on VMS. xterm supports ANSI color, VT220 emulation and UTF-8 There's an faq at http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html

Re: ssh to VMS - terminal problems

2007-02-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:04:39AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes - VMS only knows about DEC-compatible terminals. None of the *BSD console emulators do well enough to be usable on VMS. xterm supports ANSI color, VT220 emulation and UTF-8 There's an faq at

ssh to VMS - terminal problems

2007-02-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
HI I connect to a VMS box from my FreeBSD laptop via ssh. When I run a full screen text editor (EDIT) my terminal screen behaves unpredictably: cursor jumps from place to place, keystrokes produce characters in unpredictable places, screen menu flows with the text rather than stay at the bottom.

Re: ssh to VMS - terminal problems

2007-02-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:51:57PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: If I run ssh from a terminal emulator in xorg, all seems fine. yes - VMS only knows about DEC-compatible terminals. None of the *BSD console emulators do well enough to be usable on VMS. xterm supports ANSI color, VT220

Re: ssh to VMS - terminal problems

2007-02-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:45:17AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:51:57PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: If I run ssh from a terminal emulator in xorg, all seems fine. yes - VMS only knows about DEC-compatible terminals. None of the *BSD console emulators do

Re: ssh to VMS - terminal problems

2007-02-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:05:37PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:45:17AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:51:57PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: If I run ssh from a terminal emulator in xorg, all seems fine. yes - VMS only knows