I have just managed to answer my own question after much trawling through
man pages and reading the excellent xterm FAQ by Thomas E Dickey at
https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html
By adding the line
XTerm.vt100.utf8: 0
to my .Xresources file, EDIT/TPU now displays correctly in an
On 2020-05-16 20:12, Paul Koning wrote:
On May 16, 2020, at 11:06 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Sounds like your problem is that TPU thinks your terminal understands 8-bit
control characters, while it actually doesn't.
If VMS is like RSTS, there is an "8 bit characters" setting but no
Thanks Paul and Johnny. I did find the "8-bit controls" menu, but I get the
problem whether it is ticked or unticked. I will check the UTF-8 situation.
Cheers
Peter
On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 19:12, Paul Koning wrote:
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> On May 16, 2020, at 11:06 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
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> Sounds like your problem is that TPU thinks your terminal understands 8-bit
> control characters, while it actually doesn't.
If VMS is like RSTS, there is an "8 bit characters" setting but no separate
8-bit controls setting, and
Oh, and if you are using UTF-8, you are very screwed.
Johnny
On 2020-05-16 17:06, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Sounds like your problem is that TPU thinks your terminal understands
8-bit control characters, while it actually doesn't.
Ctrl+Left click should show a menu entry "8-bit controls",
Sounds like your problem is that TPU thinks your terminal understands
8-bit control characters, while it actually doesn't.
Ctrl+Left click should show a menu entry "8-bit controls", which is the
corresponding thing on the xterm side.
However, to properly answer your question, we'd need to
I am trying to configure xterm to work as closely as possible to a real VT
terminal when connected to a simulated microVAX 3900 on simh. I have this
mostly working, but one thing that is annoying me is the display of
characters in the xterm window when editing a file with EDIT/TPU.
When I edit a
