On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 03/05/2013 07:44 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
It gets screwier. The New York State College of Optometry again in
Manhattan is still using an entire DEC based solution for their
work. I certainly hope they hired the right hobbyist to maintain
their gear.......
I think my alma mater (Royal Holloway, Uni. of London) still uses a
couple of AlphaServers for their student registration at the
beginning of each year and some more VMS boxes for print servers for
the on-campus labs.
I actually managed to borrow some VMS install media from the admin
guys, they were more than happy to help a hobbyist out :)
I've mentioned this to one or two folks here privately, but now that
it has come up...My mother is a journalist with Associated Press, and
she recently took a new assignment in a different city. Their office
has a VAX-4000 running VMS, handling some sort of database. They love
it, and they have no plans to migrate away from it.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hello!
No you haven't. But good for them.
Dave stop studying them. **A big snowball collides with your windows.**
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
Well I thought the setup stuff would do that for me, so...
If you mean in the long winded menu options, yes. If you mean fettling about with the start up scripts, no.
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Kari Uusim ki <uusimaki at exdecfinland.org> wrote:
On 6.3.2013 5:50, Tony Blews wrote:
Hi,
I've asked this one before....
If I try to send mail out by SMTP% I get a message sayin that the queue
is not started.
Aside from "start the queue", does anyone have any useful advice?
VMS 7.3 btw
Tony
Just checking, have you started the SMTP service in TCPIP?
Kari
On 6.3.2013 5:50, Tony Blews wrote:
Hi,
I've asked this one before....
If I try to send mail out by SMTP% I get a message sayin that the queue
is not started.
Aside from "start the queue", does anyone have any useful advice?
VMS 7.3 btw
Tony
Just checking, have you started the SMTP service in TCPIP?
Kari
On 03/05/2013 07:44 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
It gets screwier. The New York State College of Optometry again in
Manhattan is still using an entire DEC based solution for their
work. I certainly hope they hired the right hobbyist to maintain
their gear.......
I think my alma mater (Royal Holloway, Uni. of London) still uses a
couple of AlphaServers for their student registration at the
beginning of each year and some more VMS boxes for print servers for
the on-campus labs.
I actually managed to borrow some VMS install media from the admin
guys, they were more than happy to help a hobbyist out :)
I've mentioned this to one or two folks here privately, but now that
it has come up...My mother is a journalist with Associated Press, and
she recently took a new assignment in a different city. Their office
has a VAX-4000 running VMS, handling some sort of database. They love
it, and they have no plans to migrate away from it.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hi,
I've asked this one before....
If I try to send mail out by SMTP% I get a message sayin that the queue is not started.
Aside from "start the queue", does anyone have any useful advice?
VMS 7.3 btw
Tony
On 2013-03-06 03:15, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:
Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
On 2013-03-05 22:19, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:
Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> writes:
try xterm.vt100.decTerminalID: 220
Which was my memory, I'd check to the sources for sure.
Also, don't forget to restart X. The .Xresource stuff was always hokey
and if things are not perfect, bad things happen. I've spent way more time
than I want to think dealing with Xresource crap over the years (and
b*tching at authors).
Clem
Doesn't make a bit of difference. Still doesn't give me DECDWL or DECDHL,
and the debugger issue still persists.
So, DECDWL and DECHDL are noted in the xterm documentation that it
depends on your fonts. So unless you have an old version, or bad fonts,
it should work. Does it work if you have it set to vt100?
Nope.
What font are you using?
Good question. I just let it use the default font, whatever that is. Also, I just looked and noticed that Ctrl-Right Mouse shows an option for enabling double sized characters. Do you have that, and is it enabled?
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
On 2013-03-05 22:19, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:
Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> writes:
try xterm.vt100.decTerminalID: 220
Which was my memory, I'd check to the sources for sure.
Also, don't forget to restart X. The .Xresource stuff was always hokey
and if things are not perfect, bad things happen. I've spent way more time
than I want to think dealing with Xresource crap over the years (and
b*tching at authors).
Clem
Doesn't make a bit of difference. Still doesn't give me DECDWL or DECDHL,
and the debugger issue still persists.
So, DECDWL and DECHDL are noted in the xterm documentation that it
depends on your fonts. So unless you have an old version, or bad fonts,
it should work. Does it work if you have it set to vt100?
Nope.
What font are you using?
--
VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.
On 6 Mar 2013, at 02:04, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
It gets screwier. The New York State College of Optometry again in
Manhattan is still using an entire DEC based solution for their work.
I certainly hope they hired the right hobbyist to maintain their
gear.......
I think my alma mater (Royal Holloway, Uni. of London) still uses a couple of AlphaServers for their student registration at the beginning of each year and some more VMS boxes for print servers for the on-campus labs.
I actually managed to borrow some VMS install media from the admin guys, they were more than happy to help a hobbyist out :)
sampsa
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2013-03-05 21:56, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:
Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
On 2013-03-05 21:33, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2013-03-05 21:18, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:
Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> writes:
Yep. From the FAQ:
The emulation level for xterm is set via the resource decTerminalID,
*e.g.*,
to 220 for a VT220. Once set, applications can set the emulation
level up
or down within that limit. DEC's terminals are configured in much the
same
way by a setup option.
Yup... .Xresources has "decTerminalID: vt200" but that still doesn't
excuse
it for misbehaving as one. ;) It also doesn't do DECDWL or DECDHL
when it's
set for vt200.
Note that the value should be set to "220", not "vt220", nor "vt200".
And I should correct myself. Leading letters are ignored in
decTerminalID, so vt220 works just as well as 220. However, vt200 will
probably still not create the desired result.
And you need the resource class or resource name in there as well, so
just a plain decTerminalID in your x resources will not work right.
I'll have to stop postin shorthand for you...
:-)
XTerm.vt100.decTerminalID: vt200
Now change that to "vt220". :-)
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
Hello!
Here's an interesting tidbit. The first time I saw a cluster of these
terminals was about fifteen years previously. They were used to manage
the entire line of business of the Federation Employment Guidance
Service over in Manhattan. Then about the time they switched over to
something other then the VAX (and this despite the fact that their
kludgy billing and record keeping solution runs only on that
platform.) I believed then that they first went for the Alpha and
someone else worked out how to have this <Expletive Deleted!> working
there. And then they were using the PC to talk to their solution and
still using DECNet.
Then when I started in earnest visiting the Queens Borough Public
Library they were entirely DEC based complete with (you guessed it!)
these terminals to do everything.
Now they too are gone.
It gets screwier. The New York State College of Optometry again in
Manhattan is still using an entire DEC based solution for their work.
I certainly hope they hired the right hobbyist to maintain their
gear.......
Oh and Dave please stop staring at the visiting Timelord. He's there
to buy the entire island where an idiot placed an atomic energy
plant.... And please stop trying to pay the Yetis who are throw
snowballs at you.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On 2013-03-05 22:19, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:
Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> writes:
try xterm.vt100.decTerminalID: 220
Which was my memory, I'd check to the sources for sure.
Also, don't forget to restart X. The .Xresource stuff was always hokey
and if things are not perfect, bad things happen. I've spent way more time
than I want to think dealing with Xresource crap over the years (and
b*tching at authors).
Clem
Doesn't make a bit of difference. Still doesn't give me DECDWL or DECDHL,
and the debugger issue still persists.
So, DECDWL and DECHDL are noted in the xterm documentation that it depends on your fonts. So unless you have an old version, or bad fonts, it should work. Does it work if you have it set to vt100?
Not sure what the debugger issues were.
Anyway, we might be beating on a dead horse here. It might that you're actually not that interested in getting this working, if you have another solution that do work for you.
All I can say is that at my place, xterm do handle DECDWL and DECDHL just fine.
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
