25 Dec
2025
25 Dec
'25
8:57 a.m.
The keyboard seems to work, it just doesn't display the file content on the
screen. But I'll look around for that script and give it a try if I find it.
- Peter
On Wed, Dec 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM Zane Healy via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
There’s probably a shell script floating around that
does a good job of
making the keyboard work correctly when using an xterm. I think it’s
called vt100.sh. Though the last time I tried to use it was on a Mac and
the xterm wasn’t compiled with the necessary options.
These days I use SecureCRT.
Zane
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On Dec 24, 2025, at 10:23 AM, 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