monitor/terminal config on an AS1200

[Kirk Reindl]

Hi:

Our company just purchased a used AS1200 DEC server.
I've loaded VMS OS ver 7.3-1 in an attempt to test upgrading to 7.3-2.

Can someone tell me what set term configs I should have so my screen
paints correctly?
Here is some more info.
The monitor that is connected is a graphics style monitor that is
relatively new. The monitor then gets connected to a video card. It
appears to be a 17" screen.

I can login into the system and everything is okay, but when I attempt
to edit a file the thing goes hayware and I get gobble d gook on the
screen.

The terminal type is defaulting to unknown.
Thanks for any direction you can give me.
Regards,
Kirk

[Uwe Zessin]

[Hello moderator, please move this to "OpenVMS -> general" thanks ]

Kirk,
it looks like you did not install the DECwindows software? This includes a terminal emulator application which allows using a screen-based texteditor.

[Kirk Reindl]

I did install DECwindows as it was the default for the OS load.

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Kirk,

Are you fully booted ? Do you get decwindows or simply a terminal ?
If not booted, check http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=513849

Else : try "set term/dev=vt100" before editing.

WIm

[Kirk Reindl]

WLM

I am fully booted to the OS-level.
The system is not coming up in DECwindows-mode (just character based). I thought I selected that DECwindows get installed when I built the system. I tried setting the term to vt100, I was able to get it to take, but I'm still having issues editing files with the edit command. (For instance if I try editing the startup command procedure) I can see the contents of the file, but I get all these strange numbers in the file. I'm trying to get TCPIP set up on the machine so I can try to telnet in.

If you had any other suggestions that'd be great. I'd really be nice if I could get DECwindows running so I had a gui at the console.

regards,
Kirk

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Kirk,

I have no test environment for this but if you do @sys$startup:decw$startup and press control-f2 you might get into decwindows. Perhaps you must first logout again ...

Wim (with an I)

[Uwe Zessin · Accepted solution]

In older versions the DECwindows software did come up, even when the DW-MOTIF license was missing.

Is this license loaded? Does anybody know if the behaviour has changed?

[Peter Hofman]

I have a similar problem with a terminal connected to the serial console.
I found out that the terminal needs to be set to 8-bits characters. In fact,
I even have the problem right now, where I connect to a system using telnet (Hummingbird HostExplorer). My login does a set term/inq, which resets my terminal emulator to 7-bits. I have to change itto 8-bits before entering the EDIT command.

I also have seen something else, related to this on VMS7.3-1: DECNET_REGISTER gives you a menu when your terminal type is known (vt300 or so), but if it is set to "unknown" then I will get a command line interface. IIRC this was not the case in VMS 7.2 (have to check)

[Andy Bustamante]

In addition to the other DECWindows advice, there may be quota issues. If you watch the boot process you may see a quota message and advice to run autogen. Try running an autogen. "@sys$update:autgogen savparams reboot"

[Kirk Reindl]

Hi everyone:

Thanks for the responses. I have somehow managed to connect an old school HP console to this AS1200 and at least now I can edit files without a problem. I just put my term setting dev=vt100

I'm from the HPUX world, and I had no idea DECwindows was a separate license. This is mostly my problem as to why I can't get the GUI going.

Rgds,
Kirk

[Uwe Zessin]

Now that you mention it...
you might check if you've got a license named NET-APP-SUP-somenumber. This is a group of licenses that includes DECwindows.