[fa.info-vax] 4.0 foreign terminal support

info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (01/10/85)

From: Provan@LLL-MFE.ARPA

All this foreign terminal support in 4.0 looks swell, but does anyone
know how to make it work?  I added our local terminal to the TermTable.txt
file, ran SmgBldTbl on it, and put it in Sys$System, but when I do a
Set Term/Dev=hp2621, it's "not a legal argument" or some such.  Anybody
know the secret?

info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (01/10/85)

From: engvax!KVC@cit-vax

I think I read something in the Screen Manager documentation about
the terminal table getting mapped into the system at boot time.  There
is something called SMGMAPTRM out in SYS$SYSTEM as well, maybe you
have to run that to remap the old terminal description.  Maybe you
have to reboot.

I tried defining a terminal using a private terminal table.  The
documentation says you define a logical name to point to the new
termtable file.  That all worked fine.  I was able to say SET TERM/DEV=H19
and it ran just fine.  Only thing that doesn't work is SHOW TERMINAL.
It tries to access a nonexistent file in SYS$LIBRARY.  At DECUS they
said this was fixed in V4.0.

I haven't tried changing the system terminal table though...

	/Kevin Carosso               engvax!kvc @ CIT-VAX.ARPA
	 Hughes Aircraft Co.