[Simh] Interdata OS/32 question

[Gene Irwin]

I am using bash under the arm 64 version of debian mate on a pine64.  I am
remoting in using ssh. The remote system is bash under Linux mint.

After going through the guide to build a system from tapes there is a
section that enables more terminals, disks and probably other things.  All
is well until this point.  After the system and install the system gets
rebooted into the new configuration.

It is at that time when things go sideways.

All the text printed by OS/32 now has control characters with it and it
doesn't seem to understand input any more.  If you do a set time command
and hit enter the cursor returns to the beginning of the line but I can't
tell if the prompt appears again due to the control characters at the
beginning of the line.

I don't know how to record a session or I would provide a log.

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016, 3:29 AM Davis Johnson <davis at frizzen.com> wrote:

> Assume for the moment you are running OS/32 and MTM, not reliance or
> other software on top of OS/32 that needs a specific terminal.
>
> There are two big issues you have with using a VT-100 emulator (or a
> real VT-100, for that matter) on OS/32:
>
> OS/32 defaults to using 7F (177 for you DEC folks) characters for pads,
> instead of NUL characters. A VT displays that as a half-intensity filled
> character cell. The actual original VT-100 turned on 50% of the pixels
> in the character cell in a checker board pattern. You can get rid of
> these entirely in MTM. Eliminating them from the console is more
> problematic. When I have more time I can provide more detail.
>
> OS/32 expects a control-h (08, or 010) as a backspace. A VT sends 7F.
> This one is harder to fix - you can train yourself to type control-h or
> do some more involved patching.
>
> I'll have more time this evening.
>
> On 08/31/2016 10:19 PM, Don Stalkowski wrote:
> > On Wed Aug 31 14:51:02 2016 girwin1215 at gmail.com (Gene Irwin) wrote:
> >> I have managed to work my way through a good deal of the os/32 setup
> >> process but after the build of the new os the system seems to want a
> >> Perkins Elmer 550 or 1100 terminal to operate now.  I  don't know how to
> >> make the shell connect to the simh console in another mode.
> >>
> >> Can someone point me in the right direction to finish this?
> > Hi Gene,
> >
> > Can you post the portion of the console dialog that asks for the
> > Perkin Elmer terminals?
> >
> > Don
> >
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