23 Mar
2002
23 Mar
'02
6:20 a.m.
Roger Merchberger wrote:
The usual... I don't have any paper-based documentation whatsoever
-- all I
http://www.openvms.compaq.com:8000/
Admittedly not as convenient as paper-based,
but pretty useful nonetheless.
Start, I guess, with the User's Manual:
http://www.openvms.compaq.com:8000/73final/6489/6489pro.html
I've tried 'help' but there are a lot of
things that *just* *won't*
*run*
whatsoever, including [but not limited to] every text
editor I've
tried,
because I can't figure out how to get the terminal
screen
configured...
which (of course, with my luck) 'help' either
1) doesn't tell me,
or 2) has
obfuscated it *so* badly that I won't have a chance
in Hades of
ever
finding it there...
What terminal do you have connected?
If it's one of the VT series, try:
$ SET TERMINAL/INQUIRE
and don't type anything until the $ prompt
comes back
I used the VMS construct of DOS's 'copy con
filename.txt' {I don't
remember
what it is anymore -- it's been 6-9 months since
I've even sparked
up my
VAX} to try to do a few things on it, but it's so
hard editing
anything
that I took what little spare time I had towards other
pursuits.
:-/
$ EDIT filename.txt
will fire up some variant of TPU with an EVE
personality but EDIT/EDT is still around (if you've
ever used a standard editor on RT11 or RSX, this
is pretty near identical.
emacs and vi[m] are available too.
The system:
VAXStation 3100/m38, 32Meg RAM, VMS Version 7.1 [the full monty -
even has
the BASIC package in the distro - 11 disks worth!], (2)
1Gig hard
drives
{RZ26s? I think - it's been a while}, 2Meg 8-plane
grafix buffer
[this is
the biotsch that won't config right for the
terminal settings,
hence no
text editors] 17" display, keyboard, mouse [of
course] & I just got
off
eBay 5 AUI->RJ45 transceivers [$22US shipped!
Whoohoo!] so I won't
have to
have thinnet strung all over my new ancient house - I
can stick
with Cat5.
Did it come with the OS installed or did you do it?
You could just re-install to get DECwindows.
Without DECwindows you cannot do full-screen editing
on the monitor - it's just a dumb glass tty.
Your options appear to be:
1) flip S3 and hook up a VT to the printer port
and use it as an alternate console
2) log in over the network (telnet or SET HOST)
3) Install DECwindows
4) Use EDT in line mode or use TECO
(4) would be an education, but perhaps not ideal :-)
(3) is the way to go.
(2) you should do ... all VAXes have the right to be networked.
Antonio