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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.unix.aix,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: VT320 emulation
Date: 4 Sep 1997 18:19:20 GMT
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In article <5ummsu$m1$1@masala.cc.uh.edu>,
Vincent H. <vch07342@Bayou.UH.EDU> wrote:
: : In article <5ukmsb$7uo$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
: : Bob Shair (courtesy) <rmshair@delphi.beckman.uiuc.edu> wrote:
: : : In comp.unix.aix Bernhard Hochstetter <bhochstetter@psi.de> wrote:
: : : > Luc Nys wrote:
: : : > > I'm looking for a VT 320 terminal emulator program for AIX.
: : : > > Who can give me some ideas/hints? Any help is appreciated.
: : :
: : : > use kermit ! The vt-emulation of kermit is good and you can use it on
: : : > serial and network connections.
: : :
: : : I regret that, as far as I can discover, C-Kermit under Unix doesn't
: : : provide terminal emulation. Sad, because C-Kermit under OS/2 and
: : : K95 provide the best VT 320 emulation in the business.
:
: Jeffrey Altman (jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
: : It is true that C-Kermit does not provide terminal emulation.
(This was explained in detail in a separate posting.)
: : But that is because X Windows provides users with things like
: : Xterm and AIXterm which provide very substantial terminal capabilities.
: : Very much unlike a PC running DOS or Windows or even OS/2.
:
: : Unless you must have a VT320 (you are connecting to a VMS system)
: : I recommend (on AIX) using AIXterm and copying the termcap/terminfo
: : files to the host you are logging into.
:
: : Kermit-95's new AIXTerm and HFT emulations are looking very good
: : and should be out of beta test in a couple of weeks.
:
: : http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html for Kermit-95
: : http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit60.html for C-Kermit 6.0.192
:
: I found a shareware called Netterm which also does a very good job of VT320
: emulation for AIX. Most of the function keys are working as expected. You
: can find it at www.tucows.com. Hope this would help.
:
But the question (or at least the original one) regarded a VT320 emulator
that runs on AIX. Netterm, like Kermit 95, runs on Windows. C-Kermit
runs on AIX.
The normal method for making serial or network connections from AIX to
elsewhere is to run C-Kermit in an Xterm or AIXterm window, and accomplish
the necessary key mappings not in Kermit (which can't see the keys directly),
but in Xterm or AIXterm. I don't have a recipe for you specific to AIX, but
here is some text from the C-Kermit online documentation that might help:
With xterm, for example, you can use 'xmodmap' ("man xmodmap" for details);
here is an xterm mapping to map the Sun keyboard to DEC VT200 values for use
with VT-terminal oriented applications like VMS EVE:
keycode 101=KP_0
keycode 119=KP_1
keycode 120=KP_2
keycode 121=KP_3
keycode 98=KP_4
keycode 99=KP_5
keycode 100=KP_6
keycode 75=KP_7
keycode 76=KP_8
keycode 77=KP_9
keycode 52=KP_F1
keycode 53=KP_F2
keycode 54=KP_F3
keycode 57=KP_Decimal
keycode 28=Left
keycode 29=Right
keycode 30=KP_Separator
keycode 105=KP_F4
keycode 78=KP_Subtract
keycode 8=Left
keycode 10=Right
keycode 32=Up
keycode 33=Down
keycode 97=KP_Enter
Adjust as necessary for AIX (and if you would like to contribute an AIX-
specific mapping back to the Kermit, please do, and we'll incorporate into
the distribution).
Of course you could just as well use cu, tip, telnet, or rlogin from your
Xterm or AIXterm window in the same way but (a) why use 3 or 4 different
programs and interfaces for the same basic function (establishing terminal
sessions to remote hosts); and (b) then you would give up file transfer,
character-set translation and scripting in your terminal sessions.
If your connection to the remote session is 8-bit clean, tell C-Kermit to:
set parity none ; (this is the default anyway)
set terminal bytesize 8
set command bytesize 8
and then you can use 8-bit character sets. And you can also set up the
necessary translations in C-Kermit if the remote host uses a different
character set than your Xterm or AIXterm using the SET TERMINAL
CHARACTER-SET <remote> [ <local> ] command, e.g.
set terminal character-set dg-international latin-1
set terminal character-set dec-multinational cp850
set terminal character-set portuguese cp437
set terminal character-set cp850 latin-1
set terminal character-set latin-1 cp850
etc... (for Russian, Hebrew, Greek, etc)
The current version of C-Kermit is 6.0.192; you can find out all about it at:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck60.html
And about Kermit 95 at:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
- Frank