My VMS Conundrums... (was: Toilett processing...

From: Paul Thompson <thompson_at_mail.athenet.net>
Date: Sat Mar 23 14:14:51 2002

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 pat_at_cart-server.purdueriots.com wrote:


> If you have an ANSI terminal (or a vtXXX) hooked up to it, all you need to
> do is 'set term/ansi'. If you're using a framebuffer monitor, I think
> you're outa luck, both myself and a guy I know that worked for DEC either
> can't figure it out or have deemed it impossible to do ANSI emulation on
> those things (or anything useful). My suggestion is to try and get it to
> work with a text-terminal first.

They finally got around to ANSI emulation in blue screen mode on Alphas
running Unix. I don't think VMS even has it there.


> that would be 'create filename.txt'. Once you get yourself an ANSI
> terminal and EDT or EVE running, it'll be much more exciting. EDT and EVE
> are *not* the easiest things to use without any prior knowledge (or
> without a "Do" key on your DEC Keyboard :) The best 'intro to VMS for

Control B works as do, with a downarrow to get rid of the prev. command

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