24 Dec
2025
24 Dec
'25
8:01 p.m.
What does $set term/inquire do in your case? (use $show term/all later
and/or try editing after doing it)
sylogin.com runs it on some terminal types and not others. This may be why
the console works and other forms of login don't. If that's the case you
can edit sylogin.com to include those additional login sources in the
inequity processing (in later versions of VMS it's the TT_NOINQUIR variable
you need to change the settings for - I don't have a 5.3 machine up to
check so it may be slightly different).
On Wed, Dec 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM Wayne S via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Can you set your terminal emulator to emulate a vt220
instead of trying
vms to do vt100. You used the set term vt100 command before?
Vms has help. Just type help set from a command prompt.
Also can do show term to see term params. Maybe show term /all … don’t
remember exactly.
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 24, 2025, at 10:23, Peter Ekstrom via
cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I feel like I have tried everything, although I'm sure I haven't...
I have my real MV 3100 up and running with a serial terminal on the
console
port. It works great but I don't want to sit
by the machine all the time
to
do stuff. I have DECnet running and am able to
connect to it. I have an
old
raspberry pi running a minimal linux setup with
the decnet stuff
installed.
So I ssh to the pi (named gatewy) and from there I use dnlogin to talk
DECnet and connect to the machines. This way I can connect to my PDP-11
machines running RSX11M and M+ and use EDT to edit files in screen mode.
When I try the same under VMS, EDT starts, loads the file and enters
screen
mode but just shows a blank screen with the
cursor in the top-left
corner.
If I go to line mode I can walk through the file
and edit using line
mode.
But as soon as I go back to the screen mode (the
change command) I just
get
the blank screen.
I have made sure TERM in each shell is vt100 and I have tried forcing VMS
to VT100 but it stays with a vt200_series terminal. I also have a SIMH
MV3100 also running VMS 5.3-1 (they both run on that version) and it acts
the same way as the hardware MV3100. If I go onto the console connection
in
SIMH EDT works fine, as on the physical terminal
on the real machine.
Anyone have any pointers or ideas I can try?
- Peter