[Simh] xterm and simh

[Johnny Billquist]

Oh, and if you are using UTF-8, you are very screwed.

   Johnny

On 2020-05-16 17:06, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> Sounds like your problem is that TPU thinks your terminal understands 
> 8-bit control characters, while it actually doesn't.
> 
> Ctrl+Left click should show a menu entry "8-bit controls", which is the 
> corresponding thing on the xterm side.
> 
> However, to properly answer your question, we'd need to know a lot more 
> about your environment. And it's a bit hard to even ask the right 
> questions here, because xterm is so flexible that you can accomplish a 
> lot of stuff in multiple ways, and you might not even know what you are 
> doing... And VMS tries to figure out what your terminal is, and 
> depending on various details, xterm will identify in different ways, 
> which is what VMS then base its settings on...
> 
>    Johnny
> 
> On 2020-05-16 16:34, Peter Allan wrote:
>> I am trying to configure xterm to work as closely as possible to a 
>> real VT terminal when connected to a simulated microVAX 3900 on simh. 
>> I have this mostly working, but one thing that is annoying me is the 
>> display of characters in the xterm window when editing a file with 
>> EDIT/TPU.
>>
>> When I edit a file with EDIT/EDT, the screen displays what I would 
>> expect for EDT.
>>
>> However, when I edit a file with EDIT/TPU, I get a lot of 
>> garage characters on the screen and it is unusable while in the 
>> editor. Pressing cntl-Z exits the editor and the screen is fine again.
>>
>> I have found that if I type SET TERM/NOEIGHT before using EDIT/TPU, 
>> then it works fine. The annoying thing is that if I type SET 
>> TERM/INQUIRE then it sets the terminal to EIGHTBIT mode, and this 
>> happens when I log in.
>>
>> I can easily change the login command procedure to set the terminal to 
>> NOEIGHTBIT when I log in, but does anyone know how to configure xterm 
>> so that is not an issue in the first place?
>>
>> To reiterate, this is a problem with the display of characters on the 
>> screen of the xterm window, not an issue with the mapping of keys.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Peter Allan
>>
>>
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