[Simh] Editing keypad on laptop

[Paul Hardy]

Excuse the flurry of posts this evening (is two a flurry?), or suggest a better forum to ask.

As described in earlier posts, I've got a SIMH VAX running VMS, and have hooked it up to Cygwin/X running on the same host windows laptop via XDM and DECwindows. All works well until I want to edit a file, when I have distinct problems getting either EVE or EDT to do anything useful.

The principal problem is that I'm on a laptop, which doesn't therefore have keypad keys for Gold (EDT) or Do (EVE).

Has anyone worked through this before and can advise? I'm sure that DECwindows can be persuaded to set up an appropriate keyboard mapping, but I don't know where to start looking.

I do have a Targus USB keypad, which may well be of use if I can remap its keys. Is there a utility that will tell me what key number is generated when I press a given key? How do I then set up a mapping?

Regards,

-- 
Paul  Hardy
Email: paul at the hardy.demon.co.uk domain
Exiled in Redlands, CA, USA
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Hardy 
  To: simh at trailing-edge.com 
  Cc: Zachary Kline 
  Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 10:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [Simh] VMS TCP/IP?


  I'm in precisely the same situation, even down to Verizon as the ISP, and use of dyndns.org!

  I've got the TCP/IP from the hobbyist kit working to the extent that I can browse external web sites from the simulated VAX with Lynx or Netscape, and I can telnet in from outside, but I haven't yet tried to set up SMTP mail.

  The laptop hosting SIMH is connected via wireless to a D-Link DI524 wireless router, and I had to set up 'virtual servers' on it to redirect external ports across its firewall. It has an Ethernet connection to a Westell Wirespeed DSL model which links to Verizon. What is your exact configuration?

  I might have a go at setting up SMTP tomorrow, but let me know if you make progress.


  -- 
  Paul  Hardy
  Email: paul at the hardy.demon.co.uk domain
  Exiled in Redlands, CA, USA 
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Zachary Kline 
    To: simh at trailing-edge.com 
    Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 6:43 PM
    Subject: [Simh] VMS TCP/IP?


    Hiya,
        I'm one of those unfortunate souls who doesn't have a domain name of their own.  I'm operating behind a home router, which is in turn hooked somehow to Verizon, and so it goes.
        The problem I am having is with getting a TCP/IP package to work.  I've tried using the one supplied on the VMS hobbyist kit, and though it configures just fine it proves troublesome in areas which even the emulated OpenBSD system did right.  The main problem centers around my nonexistent domain name.  
        I use dyndns.org to essentially give me a fake DNS record in most domain name servers.  Doesn't hold up well under reverse DNS lookup, but still.  When I try to configure TCP/IP from the hobbyist kit, everything appears to work fine except for the IVP.  That returns the following:
    %system-f-logname, no logical name match.  I don't have any idea what logical name its looking for.  The SMTP server, similarly, refuses to accept incoming messages for seemingly the same reason.
        As I said, OpenBSD, also running on the same emulated VAX, with the same Delqa emulation and such configured, works.  I don't know why.  I'm not a particularly experienced OpenVMS user.  Thought that switching to something like Multinet might help the situation, but Process Software's FTP site seems conveniently down...
    Any help at all on this situation would be greatly appreciated.
    Yours,
    Zack.



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