Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!kddlab!titcca!ccut!tansei!c31293 From: c31293@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.JUNET (c31293) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Using non-DEC terminals with VMS Summary: Check SMGTABLE Keywords: VMS Terminals Message-ID: <1907@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.JUNET> Date: 9 May 88 09:33:10 GMT References: <274@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu> Organization: Computer Center, University of Tokyo, Japan. Lines: 22 In article <274@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu>, tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes: > I've recently acquired the task of managing a MicroVax running MicroVMS 4.6. > We have a whole bunch of non-DEC terminals that we'd like to use with it. I'm > new to VMS and learning as I go. Perhaps some of you VMS gurus can answer a > few of my questions: I'm not a guru :-), but I have been operating VMS for a year. > > Will VMS support non-DEC terminals? Is there any facility for a terminal > attribute database (like terminfo and termcap under UNIX)? Can you use full > screen applications (like EDT) on non-DEC terminals? > I don't know whether VMS supports non-DEC terminals (at least I haven't read ANY in the huge documentations :-<), but you can find a key in SYS$SYSTEM. Check SYS$SYSTEM:SMGTABLE.TXT. You can find something like a script language, which gives basic VMS-supported terminals' configurations. There are several programs may-be-related to them, like TERMTABLE.EXE and etc. -- Kenji Rikitake, TWICS operation staff (using MicroVMS 4.4) and studying in Wada Lab., Univ of Tokyo