gravishanker@eagle.wesleyan.edu (06/04/90)
Hi I have a Personal IRIS running IRIX 3.2. I wish to open a window to a Vax running VMS. I do the following: 1. Issue wsh -m 24x80. 2. In the newly created window, I issue set term=vt100. 3. I telnet to the Vax. First of all, set term/inq fails to get proper response from my IRIS, so my terminal type is unknown. 4. I set it to VT100 by set term/dev=vt100 on my Vax. Then I want to edit a file using TPU. The first screen comes up fine. But once you want to move down a page, the status line at the bottom vanishes and I begin to see text on all 24 lines. A ctrl-w to clear the screen brings the status line back and everything looks normal. Obviously I don't want to do a CTRL-w to refresh the screen everytime I scroll to the next page. I would appreciate any help in clearing up this problem. Thanks. G. Ravishanker
scotth@corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry) (06/05/90)
In article <27263@eagle.wesleyan.edu> gravishanker@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
gr> I have a Personal IRIS running IRIX 3.2. I wish to open a window to a Vax
gr> running VMS. I do the following:
gr> 1. Issue wsh -m 24x80.
gr> 2. In the newly created window, I issue set term=vt100.
Don't bother, because...
gr> 3. I telnet to the Vax. First of all, set term/inq fails to get proper
gr> response from my IRIS, so my terminal type is unknown.
A wsh is not a vt100 and won't respond to the inquire, and may (will?)
screw up anything you may run from Irix later (if you keep the window
around after the telnet session).
gr> 4. I set it to VT100 by set term/dev=vt100 on my Vax.
A wsh is an ANSI, not a vt100. It's been a while since I typed this by
hand, but 'SET TERM/DEV=UNKNOWN/ANSI' works reasonably well for everything
I've tried EXCEPT edt. EDT wants a real vt100...
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gr> I would appreciate any help in clearing up this problem. Thanks.
A better solution if you have the X11 product is to use an xterm, because
it emulates a vt102, including dealing with the SET TERM/INQ and EDT works
fine (though I don't like to use EDT).
gr> G. Ravishanker
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