[Simh] Interdata OS/32 question

[khandy21yo]

It could be many things. Without seeing the text, it will be hard to help you,
On Debian, you can start 'script' before ssh to capture your session into 'typescript',. See 'man script' for detai,s. After exiting ssh, exit bash to close script.
You could be dealing with a parity issue, or the 127s someone else talked about could be doing something weird like utf8. Parity would be my bet.

Gaa. Ignore any of the stupid autocorrect crud in  this message.
-------- Original message --------From: Gene Irwin <girwin1215 at gmail.com> Date: 9/1/16  7:51 AM  (GMT-07:00) To: Davis Johnson <davis at frizzen.com>, simh at trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] Interdata OS/32 question 
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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