Freeware VT terminal emulators for Windows?

[Mike Kier]

My employer currently uses one of the commercial terminal emulators for users to access IDX on OpenVMS from their Windows systems. Due to the licensing costs, they'd like to move the majority of these users to a good freeware terminal emulator.

I know of, and use, VTstar and it is under consideration. They would like to evaluate some others.

Features desired are VT300 or higher emulation (req'd), Telnet connection(req'd), full-screen resizing (VTstar can get close with different font selection for different screen resolutions, but doesn't just automatically adjust to a maximize window event), key definition and scripting would be a big plus.

I'd be interested in seeing the recommendations from the ITRC group.

Thanks,
Mike

[Ian Miller.]

I mostly use putty
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

I don't know if it meets your VT300 requirement.

[Ian Miller.]

See also
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1016653

[Daniel Fernandez Illan]

Mike
Another term emulator you can see on:

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/pathworks32/powerterm.html

Saludos.
Daniel.

[Mike Kier]

Thanks!

Putty is on the list to check.

The TeraTerm product from the referenced thread looks very interesting and we'll definitely check it out. (I could have sworn I'd done a reasonable search before I started a new thread, but I sure missed that one).

PowerTerm is a good emulator, but I suspect the folks from Ericom would prefer that people purchase the Pathworks license to get it.

I am specifically looking for free emulators only.

[Steven Coghill]

We use TeraTerm in all our 12K+ field offices. Easy to support. Does most everything we need. The latest version supports SSH also.

We use PuTTY in our development and system management teams. It has some drawbacks when doing full VT emulation, but nothing drastic.

[Mike Kier]

Thanks Steve.

Hey oldtimer, send me your email... Long time no see...

[Steven Coghill]

scoghill hrblock com

[John Gillings]

Hi Mike!

What about using DECterms on the OpenVMS host, displayed on the PC using X? Then the problem becomes "Freeware X servers for Windows"...

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

If you could find a better version of
http://javassh.org/space/start (click JTA binaries) ...
No need to install anything special. But the keyboard implementation sucks.

Wim