[Simh] VT220 emulation

[Villy Madsen]

I use PUTTY all of the time with my (simulated vax) and it works fine.  It does require some tweaking though..

----- Original Message -----
From: Rod Landers <rrlanders2 at yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2007 10:22 am
Subject: [Simh] VT220 emulation
To: simh at trailing-edge.com

> For whatever it's worth, I have tried:
>    
>   Putty - doesn't seem to emulate a VT220 very well. VMS 
> does not seem to recognize it as
>              a VT200 nor does edt seem to work.
>    
>   Kermit - not free and also seemed to have the same 
> problem(s) (or configuration 
>               opportunites)  as Putty. It's demo license expired before I could get the thing to 
>               work.
>    
>   IVT - this one was FREE and worked as a VT220 out of the 
> box. VMS (7.3) correctly 
>           
> identified it as a VT220 terminal and edt worked. Now that being 
> said, I have some 
>           keyboard 
> mappings to work out and some relearning of keyboard keys, but 
> it did work.
>    
>   So I would recommend IVT, telnet'ing to localhost on a 
> port that the vax simulator is running on.
>    
>   73, Rod
>    
> 
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