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Subject: Re: F and terminals...
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Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 11:36:47 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 19 11:36:47 1984
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From: Mark Johnson 

One of the sessions at the Fall 84 DECUS symposium covered the foreign
terminal support for VMS V4.  In that session the issue of terminal id
number was discussed.  In brief, a file similar to a termcap from Un*x
can be compiled to generate descriptions of the normal DEC terminals
along with anything you might own.  This description is used by 

  SET TERM/DEVI=xxx

to set the appropriate terminal characteristics and the id becomes a
number used by the SMG$ routines to lookup the codes for your particular
terminal.

These id numbers however are subject to change EVERY time you rebuild
the terminal data file.  The audience asked for a conversion to/from the
name and id & we got the usual ``noted''.  I hope DEC listens.

By the way, in VMS V3, there are big holes in the numbering scheme of
the terminal id.

  --Mark